† pretypev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To prefigure; to foreshadow.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
to say beforec1384
signifyc1384
pretendc1425
prefigurec1429
preostendc1429
prefigurate1530
prefigurate1530
adumbrate1537
promise1556
premonstrate1562
foresignify1565
presignify1570
shadow1574
foreshadow1577
presage1583
fore-run1590
presign1590
fore-read1591
figure1595
type forth, out1596
fore-point1601
foreshow1601
prophesy1608
foretella1616
foretypea1618
forebode1656
harbingera1657
pretypify1658
pretype1659
forespeak1667
to figure out1721
forecast1883
favour1887
precourse1888
precursea1892
1659 T. Lushington Recantation Serm. in Resurrection Rescued 85 St. Jerome might have pretyped it by the age of man in general.
1742 S. Humphreys New Testament xii. 55/1 The Prophet by that name pretypes John the Baptist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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