0 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.
The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures, prefiguring modern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
Both these emphases prefigure those of twentiethcentury liberation theologies with their focus on disenfranchised groups and on social justice.
In fact, this aspect of his thinking on dream formation may have prefigured some later thinking in cognitive psychology.
It is a rare moment, but one which prefigures the end of the work.
Apart from composing a lexicon, all a learner must do is select between syntactic alternatives that are fully prefigured innately.
This clearly prefigures the social function that jazz was to develop in the 1920s, the decade known as 'jazz age'.
This opening seems to, and in some sense does, prefigure what follows.
