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adj
Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
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adj
Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
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adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
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noun
An instance of prolepsis;
The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
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noun
An instance of prolepsis;
Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.
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noun
An instance of prolepsis;
A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
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noun
Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.
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History
Etymology tree English prolepsis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English proleptic From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.
Across languages
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