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Prolepsis [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. PROLEP'SIS

2. PROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]

3. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

4. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.

Prolepsis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

2. A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

3. An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

4. The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.