prefigure

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb imagine or consider beforehand
  2. verb indicate by signs

Etymology

From Middle English prefiguren, from Latin praefigurare, from figurare (“to shape, picture”).

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