Prefiguring

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prefigure \Pre*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Prefigured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prefiguring}.] [F.
     pr['e]figurer, or L. praefigurare, praefiguratum; prae before
     + figurare to figure. See {Figure}, and cf. {Prefigurate}.]
     To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and
     similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types


     prefigured." --South.
     [1913 Webster]