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proleptical, a. rare.|prəʊˈlɛptɪkəl, -ˈliːpt-|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
= prec. in various senses.
1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 277 A prolepticall Apostrophe to the people orderly demeaning themselues after the Canon for labour. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 732 Our Knowledge here is..in order of nature, before them, and proleptical to them. 1857Baden Powell Chr. without Judaism 89 Some of the best commentators have regarded the passage as proleptical, or anticipatory. 1881Echo 6 May 2/3 A sufficient answer must always be proleptical,..it must anticipate every possible objection.
b. Antecedent to historical time or to record; said of a past event, etc. fixed by astronomical or other calculation, not by actual observation.
a1646J. Gregory De æris et Epochis Posth. (1650) 170 Historical Time is that which is deduced from the æra Orbis Conditi. Proleptical is that which is fixed in the Chaos. 1659Pearson Creed i. (1839) 85 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 proleptical supposition. 1839Fraser's Mag. XX. 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. |