prefigured
past simple and past participle ofprefigure
prefigure
verb[T]
formaluk/priːˈfɪɡ.ər/us/priːˈfɪɡ.jɚ/to show orsuggestthat something willhappenin thefuture:
Hispaintingsprefigure thedevelopmentofperspectiveinRenaissanceart.
Synonyms
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
portendformal
presageformal
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- inkling
- instinct
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- presage
- prescience
- prescient
- prophecy
- prophesy
- second-guess
- the writing is on the wallidiom
- unreasoning
- visionary
Examplesofprefigured
prefigured
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
However, customary agrarian forms of social distribution clearlyprefiguredurban forms.
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In fact, this aspect of his thinking on dream formation may haveprefiguredsome later thinking in cognitive psychology.
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Apart from composing a lexicon, all a learner must do is select between syntactic alternatives that are fullyprefiguredinnately.
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The transformation of charter law in the late nineteenth centuryprefigureda loss of state power, as more rights were granted to business corporations.
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Such developmentsprefiguredcontemporary issues in a number of ways.
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Once cultures are no longerprefiguredvisually - as objects, theatres, texts - it becomes possible to think of a cultural poetics that is an interplay of voices, of positioned utterances.
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Kronecker's objections are those of a profound mathematician drawn, despite his prudent disclaimer, to a philosophical position of his own that acutelyprefiguredintuitionism.
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Yeates account is therefore more compelling in which the dialectic of agency is notprefiguredby any determined outcomes, which promote explanatory frameworks based upon, in my view, economic determinism.
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James's deeds are justified because they areprefiguredin the scriptures.
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Its series of images will unfold the function of theprefiguredclassicising nuances of expression which were used to represent the inner and outward movements of life.
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Instead, the uses to which verbal gerunds were put were to a large extent established on or at leastprefiguredby the various uses of bare nominal gerunds.
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The debate hasprefiguredmany of the arguments that will be conducted by the participants in this matter over the next few weeks.
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We have no objection in principle to the alteration of the date, which wasprefiguredin either 1997 or 1998 and is a necessary consequence of resource budgeting.
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Tammany hallprefiguredmuch of that.
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A highly technical and abstract movement composition, itprefiguredpost-modern dance styles.
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- returning soldier
- return journey
- return journey
- return key
- return-key
- return match
- return-match
- return of capital
- return of democracy
- return of democracy
- return on assets
- return-on-assets
- return on capital
- return-on-capital
- return on capital employed
- return-on-capital-employed
- return on equity
- return-on-equity
- return on invested capital
- return-on-invested-capital
- return on investment
- return-on-investment
- remote part
- remote place
- remote possibility