·noun A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
II. Prolepsis ·noun A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
III. Prolepsis ·noun An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
IV. Prolepsis ·noun The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.