prefigure
prefigure
v. trans.
Portend: P. and V. φαίνειν, σημαίνειν, V. προφαίνειν, προσημαίνειν.
v. trans.
Portend: P. and V. φαίνειν, σημαίνειν, V. προφαίνειν, προσημαίνειν.
PREFIGURE
rei futurae imaginem fingere (after Cic.): praefigurare (late and ecclesiastical Lactantius Cypr.).
rei futurae imaginem fingere (after Cic.): praefigurare (late and ecclesiastical Lactantius Cypr.).
prefigure: fĭgūro, 1: Aug. Civ. D. 16, 2. (Christiani possunt videri medio Noe filio figurati): in same sense, significo: v. TO SIGNIFY . (Praefiguro, in diff. sense, to set before one, Lact. 6, 20: though Aug. has the subs. praefiguratio, in present sense, l. c.; and the verb is used by modern theol. writers.)