单词 | proleptical |
释义 | prolepticaladj. 1. = proleptic adj. (in various senses); anticipatory. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [adjective] forecasting1548 proleptical1611 proleptica1656 lookahead1959 1611 [implied in: W. Sclater Key of Script. i. 102 Here is a prolepsis: that is, an obiection preuented which some might make in excuse of the Gentiles, thus; how could they suffocate or suppresse the truth of God, which they knew not..? Ans. Yes, they knew it, verse 19. which is proued proleptically, verse 20. by the particulars of this knowledge, and meanes, whereby they knew it. (at proleptically adv. 1)]. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 277 A prolepticall [printed prolexticall] Apostrophe to the people orderly demeaning themselues, after the Canon for labour. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 732 Our Knowledge here is..in order of Nature, Before them, and Proleptical to them. 1702 J. Howe Living Temple (new ed.) I. v. 235 Epicurus himself calls this of an existing Deity, a Proleptical Notion. 1799 P. Allwood Literary Antiquities Greece viii. 528 The name of Peleg might be, and most probably was, proleptical. It anticipated the nature of the event. 1857 B. Powell Christianity without Judaism 89 Some of the best commentators have regarded the passage as proleptical, or anticipatory. 1881 Echo 6 May 2/3 A sufficient answer must always be proleptical,..it must anticipate every possible objection. 1952 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 82 20/2 Talismans might be taken as in some sense proleptical of the sacraments. 1976 Econ. Hist. Rev. 29 210 The material gathered by Prof. Jordan cannot remain in the sanctuary of his proleptical denial of there being any valid method of testing his..hypothesis. 1994 Arch. Sexual Behavior (Nexis) 23 701 While sexual expression may have represented the ‘ultimate symbol of love and sharing’, for unmarried women it was so only in a proleptical sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > of prehistoric periods prolepticala1646 ante-historical1724 ante-historic1828 lacustrine1830 palaeotherian1831 prehistoric1832 Siwalik1836 megalithic1839 subarctic1846 meta-historical1854 prehistorical1854 lithic1862 protolithic1863 Archaeolithic1865 lacustrian1865 Palaeolithic1865 Mesolithic1866 Hallstatt1869 microlithic1872 palaeocosmic1875 Silurian1875 Miolithic1877 archilithic1879 eneolithic1886 palaeolithical1887 Solutrian1888 eolithic1890 Hallstattian1893 Chellean1894 pre-Palaeolithic1894 palaeolithoid1896 protolithic1896 Siculian1896 Siculic1896 Azilian1899 Acheulean1901 Villanova1901 chalcolithic1902 sub-Neolithic1903 Mesvinian1905 protoneolithic1906 Sicanian1909 Siculan1909 Aurignacian1914 Getulian1914 Châtelperron1915 epipalaeolithic1921 Creswellian1926 Capsian1928 Villanovan1928 Chelleo-Acheulean1930 Abbevillian1934 Swiderian1936 dryas1946 Shamvaian1947 Mazovian1965 Devensian1968 talayotic1974 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 170 Historical Time is that which is deduced from the Æra Orbis Conditi. Proleptical is that which is fixed in the Chaos. 1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed i. 115 He..who should in the Egyptian Temples see the description of so many Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, could not be assured that they were all taken from real observation, when they might be as well described out of prolepticall supposition. 1753 J. Kennedy Exam. Jackson's Chronol. Antiq. 52 From A. M. 5425..subtract its corresponding Year of the Julian Period 4713; the Difference will carry us back to the 712th Year of the Proleptical Julian Period. 1839 Fraser's Mag. 20 204 The old Egyptian chronicle, which disposes of the proleptical time of the great zodiacal period of 36,525 years,..at once establishes that series. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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