prolepticadj.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) To Rdr. sig. A4^v Having placed therefore the heads of this Period in the Kalends of January, in that proleptick year, the first of our Christian vulgar account, must be reckoned the 4714 of the Julian Period.

1699 R. Sault tr. A. Strauch Breviarium Chronologicum iv. x. 234 The Year of the Distribution of the Land was the last Sabbatick Year in the Proleptick Cycle.

1707 E. Vernon Union 5 To your Historick Chair the Dotard bind: There let him puzzling Hours in Periods wear; Bæotick Cycles and Proleptic Year.

1794 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis (ed. 2) II. i. 26 The 8th of July of the Julian proleptic year, 371 before Christ.

1866 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 8 38 Table of the relations which have existed between the meridian passages of the twenty-eight stellar divisions of the Chinese..in the proleptic Julian Year -2357.

1979 Amer. Antiquity 44 784 The conventions used here are that the Julian Day Numbers begin with JDN Number 0 = 1 January 4713 B.C. in the Gregorian proleptic calendar..and that [etc.].

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 2108/1 The date of this day in a proleptic Gregorian year is graphed.

a1684 R. Leighton Serm. in Wks. (1868) 673 Seasonable digressions, proleptic and exegetic.

1690 E. Warren Geologia (new ed.) xi. 226 For we have no more grounds to think or say, That the Waters there mentioned [i.e. in Genesis 1:10], were an invisible, potential, or proleptic Sea; than we have to imagine or affirm, that the dry Land there spoken of, was an invisible, potential, or proleptic Earth.

a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1764) I. iii. 26/1 When Christ saw the dreadful sword of wrath..the human nature trembled, and swate great drops of blood, in his proleptic agony.

1841 R. C. Trench Parables: Interpr. (1860) 39 The proleptic mind of genius may be needful to discover the law.

1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 878/2 The earliest proleptic signs of Gnosticism are to be looked for in Simon Magus.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 5 He suggests..that this behaviour is, as grammarians say, rather proleptic (anglice, ‘previous’).

1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iv. 123 Dreams, desires, shadowy impulses are now grasped as proleptic symbols of what is actually to be.

2005 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 10 June 15 Christian theologians relied on them [sc. Concordances] in their quest for proof that the Old Testament contained proleptic visions of the New.

1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1021/1 Proleptic,..applied to the science by which social and individual suffering is foretold.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Proleptic,..pertaining to prolepsis; anticipating; prognostic.

1866 W. E. Jelf Gram. Greek Lang. 113 Proleptic Use of Attributive Adjectives. An adjective is sometimes applied to a substantive, though the property expressed by it does not exist in the substantive till after the action of the accompanying verb is completed. In this construction the verb and adjective together generally form a pleonastic predicative notion.

1870 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra (ed. 2) 15/1 ἀντίρροπον is not proleptic.

2001 Classical Philol. 96 430 The case for seeing πικρήν as proleptic is less persuasive. It is far more plausible to follow the word order, and take the adjective attributively.

1959 Times 16 Mar. 11/5 This proposal for proleptic appointment..is the official policy of the British Medical Association.

1987 Injury 18 302/2 This would include provision for superannuation, encouraging proleptic appointments to consultant posts, and secondment or early retirement of Consultants.

1992 Brit. Heart Jrnl. 68 630 They should look to the possibility of identifying suitable candidates..and making proleptic appointments to allow appropriate training to be completed.