pretypifyv.
/prɪˈtɪpᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌpriˈtɪpəˌfaɪ/ transitive. To typify beforehand; to prefigure, foreshadow.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
to say beforec1384
signifyc1384
pretendc1425
prefigurec1429
preostendc1429
prefigurate1530
prefigurate1530
adumbrate1537
promise1556
premonstrate1562
foresignify1565
presignify1570
shadow1574
foreshadow1577
presage1583
fore-run1590
presign1590
fore-read1591
figure1595
type forth, out1596
fore-point1601
foreshow1601
prophesy1608
foretella1616
foretypea1618
forebode1656
harbingera1657
pretypify1658
pretype1659
forespeak1667
to figure out1721
forecast1883
favour1887
precourse1888
precursea1892
1658 G. Wither Salt upon Salt 54 That perhaps, which will to them betide, Shall in my Lot, be first pretypifide.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxii. 17 Paraphr.) 349 So shall Christ, pretypified by Solomon.
1749 J. Hutchinson Glory or Gravity Essential & Mechanical VI. 125 By the Word Type understands the Archtype itself, or that primary Exemplar of heavenly and spiritual Things, which were pretypified or prefigured by the Tabernacle.
1859 W. B. Pope tr. R. Stier Words of Lord Jesus II. 30 That day of the Son of Man, which in the destruction of Jerusalem pre-typified the last day.
1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. 103 Paramecium and its allies would appear to pre-typify the Turbellaria.
1948 R. M. Grant Bible in Church ix. 103 A critic..had been told that the red color of the sacrificial cow pretypified the blood of the passion of Christ.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 7 July c4 This is the phenomenon..by which something keeps moving just because everybody recognizes the name and assumes it must pretypify the genre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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