proleptic

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Ziro cream can be used as a proleptic when you feel hemorrhoids developing and as a treatment when you are experiencing a hemorrhoid episode.

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  1. Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation; anticipatory; antecedent. Far different and far nobler was the hard simplicity and noble self-denial of the Baptist. It is by no idle fancy that the mediæval painters represent him as emaciated by a proleptic asceticism. Farrar, Life of Christ, viii.
  2. Specifically — In medicine: (1) Anticipating the usual time: noting a periodical disease whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every recurrence.
  3. (2) Prognostic.
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  • Ziro cream can be used as a proleptic when you feel hemorrhoids developing and as a treatment when you are experiencing a hemorrhoid episode. —  Article Source
  • And proleptic apologies for the satirical vitriol that is yet to come. —  mondosapore
  • In a similar fashion, dates written as a Gregorian Date but before the establishment of the Gregorian Calendar (such as dates typically quoted in history books) are proleptic Gregorian dates. —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • Malcolm Pollack, who maintains his own fine blog, "Waka Waka Waka," wrote an e-mail of proleptic commiseration: —  Gypsy Scholar
  • At the worst such an address could only be criticised as proleptic, since it must be justified almost immediately by Anastasia's acceptance of his proposal Dearest Anastasia--for dearest you are and ever will be to me--I feel sure that your heart will go out to meet my heart in what I am saying that your kindness will support me in the important step which has now to be taken Anastasia shook her head, though there was no one to see her. —  The Nebuly Coat
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  1. from Greek προληπτικός, anticipating, from πρόληψις, an anticipation: see prolepsis.
 

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