单词 | prefiguratively |
释义 | prefigurativelyadv. In a prefigurative manner; by way of prefiguration. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [adverb] prefigurativelya1600 a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xxii, in Wks. (1662) 59 This kinde of honor was prefiguratively altogether ceremonial. 1618 B. Holyday Τεχνογαμια iii. ii. l. 38 The sixt House of her Horoscope, wherein all her diseases are Prefiguratiuely registred, promises a better issue of her sicknesse then so. 1736 J. Constable Doctr. of Antiq. concerning Eucharist i. 25 Theirs were prefiguratively the same. 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus II. ii. lxxxi. 278 Jesus was supposed to have done this prefiguratively during his earthly life to a tree. 1875 L. H. Grindon Life (new ed.) 480 There is nothing in Exogens which we do not find, prefiguratively, in Endogens, as when we compare the pine-apple with the cones of the fir tree. 1965 H. Knight tr. H. Ott Theol. & Preaching v. 90 He will strive to adumbrate, prefiguratively as it were, and at least by outline, the image of God in himself. 1996 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 12 Apr. 14 In the early 16th century a Scots historian named, prefiguratively, John Major, restructured the pattern for conservative values by the device of making Robin a displaced gentleman operating in the days of bad King John. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1600 |
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