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prototypic, a.|prəʊtəʊˈtɪpɪk| [f. prototype + -ic, after Gr. τυπικ-ός; = mod.F. prototypique.] = next.
a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) II. 66 Deviation from the design of St. Stephen's which was at once rectified by adding them to the prototypic building. 1926Physiol. Rev. VI. 322 The author..advanced the view that the blood plasma of Vertebrates and Invertebrates with a closed circulatory system is..but a reproduction of the sea water of the remote geological period in which the prototypic representatives of such animal forms first made their appearance. 1963A. Farrer in Mascall & Box Blessed Virgin Mary 28 A change which is prototypic of our own adoption, and the breaking of our bondage. 1965Ld. Northbourne tr. Schuon's Light on Anc. Worlds iv. 76 Semi-divine beings, the prototypic and normative personages whom earthly man has to imitate in all things. 1974H. Ashley Engin. Anal. of Flight Vehicles i. 7 During the first decade of powered flight, 1903–1913, configuration was going through rapid, somewhat haphazard evolution. There were therefore many deviations from the prototypic arrangement outlined in Section 1.2, e.g., the Wright Flyers..employed anti⁓symmetric warping of the wing structure for roll control. |