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What (who) is Prefigure - definition
prefigure
¦ verb
1. be an early indication or version of.
2. archaic imagine beforehand.
Derivatives
prefiguration noun
prefigurative adjective
prefigurement noun
Origin
ME: from eccles. L. praefigurare 'represent beforehand', from prae 'before' + figurare 'to form, fashion'.
Prefigure
·vt To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to Foreshadow.
prefigure
v. a.
Foreshow, foretoken, betoken, foreshadow, portend, signify, indicate.
Examples of use of Prefigure
1. A brilliant allegory of watching and looking, of society as spectacle, it seems to prefigure Las Meninas two decades in advance.
2. But at least my G–Wiz car makes me greener than David Cameron, says Alan Rusbridger Tuesday April 25, 2006 The Guardian My guess is that all London cyclists occasionally prefigure the moment of their death.
3. Pretoria‘s pledge to shoulder about half of Zimbabwe‘s arrears would come with "economic and political conditions", the official added, and could prefigure further aid to help rehouse those evicted in Zimbabwe and assist the country‘s struggling agriculture.