0 present 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.
The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures, prefiguring modern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
This sort of typology served as a prefiguring or an anticipation of things to come.
In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together, prefiguring the spectators' response.
The notion of prefiguring is threaded through the literature, as is its darker double, the charge of unacknowledged borrowings and appropriations.
His offer of music as a remedy for the encroachment of modern life locates the cure within the illness itself, prefiguring the solutions of a later modernism.
Here men have left a legacy of prestigious burial structures prefiguring the era of the great pyramids.
The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles fighting over a swan, prefiguring the love triangle in the story.
A part of a program played before the title sequence, usually featuring a cliffhanger or prefiguring the plot of the episode to follow.
