0 past simple and past participle of prefigure
1 to show or suggest that something will happen in the future:
His paintings prefigure the development of perspective in Renaissance art.
However, customary agrarian forms of social distribution clearly prefigured urban forms.
In fact, this aspect of his thinking on dream formation may have prefigured some later thinking in cognitive psychology.
Apart from composing a lexicon, all a learner must do is select between syntactic alternatives that are fully prefigured innately.
The transformation of charter law in the late nineteenth century prefigured a loss of state power, as more rights were granted to business corporations.
Such developments prefigured contemporary issues in a number of ways.
Once cultures are no longer prefigured visually - as objects, theatres, texts - it becomes possible to think of a cultural poetics that is an interplay of voices, of positioned utterances.
Kronecker's objections are those of a profound mathematician drawn, despite his prudent disclaimer, to a philosophical position of his own that acutely prefigured intuitionism.
Yeates account is therefore more compelling in which the dialectic of agency is not prefigured by any determined outcomes, which promote explanatory frameworks based upon, in my view, economic determinism.
