单词 | proleptically |
释义 | prolepticallyadv.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [adverb] > by prolepsis proleptically1611 1611 W. Sclater Key of Script. i. 102 Here is a prolepsis: that is, an obiection preuented which some might make in excuse of the Gentiles, thus; how could they suffocate or suppresse the truth of God, which they knew not..? Ans. Yes, they knew it, verse 19. which is proued proleptically, verse 20. by the particulars of this knowledge, and meanes, whereby they knew it. 2. By way of anticipation; anticipatorily; in advance of a thing's usual or expected time. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [adverb] forecastingly1548 proleptically1642 projectedly1974 1642 tr. W. Ames Marrow Sacred Divinity ii. xv. 324 The name of certaine places are [sic] sometime used, proleptically, especially in the booke of Genesis. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 733 Knowledge and Understanding, apprehend things Proleptically to their Existence. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 495 [Job] speaking proleptically, as knowing what God in a future age would do. 1797 J. Kershaw Extensive Plan Human Redemption iii. 59 This Image Jehovah appeared in to Adam proleptically when he formed him out of the Dust. 1867 J. W. Hales in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 205 Sir Edward Stanley (proleptically styled Lord Mounteagle in the ballad). 1895 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 5 380 I do not see how it is possible, except proleptically, to make intelligible statements with regard to any psychological processes that are not intelligent. 1954 R. H. Fuller Mission & Achievement Jesus iii. 50 The powers of the Kingdom are proleptically operative in Jesus, although its coming remains a decisive act of the future. 1992 Rev. Eng. Stud. 43 114 Eve associates with ‘serpent’, so that the Fall is proleptically present even from the moment of Adam's naming of her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1611 |
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