Word Meanings - PREFIGURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREFIGURE)

• Typify
• Prefigure
• adumbrate
• predelineate
• prerepresent
• foreshow
• predemonstrate
• foreshadow

Related words: (words related to PREFIGURE)

• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• ADUMBRATE
  1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor. 2. To overshadow; to shade.
• PREFIGUREMENT
  The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
• FORESHOW
  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
• TYPIFY
  To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. Sir T. Browne. (more info) Etym:
• PREFIGURE
  To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.
• FORESHOWER
  One who predicts.
• PRETYPIFY
  To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.