prototypaladj.

1649 H. Hammond Mysterium Religionis Recognitum 3 Nothing being more reasonable, then that he whose Reason is Prototypall..should (for his Soveraignty) over-rule it.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxviii. 319 Prototypal and precedenting fool.

?1715 M. Davies Present & Primitive State Arianism 4 The prototypal Schemes and original Ideas of that Præ-Arian primitive Anti-Christianity.

1750 J. Dove Creed founded on Truth 18 What..Understanding is sufficient to contemplate these prototypal Forms, as they are in the Divine Mind?

1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. III. 175 The extravagant assertions of Bailly and De Guignes, concerning the unfathomable antiquity of the primitive prototypal race of Scythia.

1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 159 Great red coals roll out.., lose their grosser substance, indicate a more ethereal essence in prototypal forms of white, down-like cinders.

1888 J. W. Dawson Geol. Hist. Plants ii. 24 Survivors of that prototypal flora.

1893 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 262 The mole..is the prototypal navvy.

1934 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 73 238 The idea..that their molar teeth were prototypal to those of all mammals has not been supported by satisfactory evidence.

1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iv. i. 341 A prototypal image of a creature which is..probably a lion.

2004 What is Enlightenment? May–July 84/2 It was these prototypal, expect-the-unexpected hippie raves..that gave the Dead the freedom to play without expectations.