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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation; anticipatory; antecedent.
  2. Specifically — In medicine: Anticipating the usual time: noting a periodical disease whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every recurrence.
  3. Prognostic.
  4. In rhetoric, implying prolepsis.
  5. Axiomatic; of the nature of prolepsis.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
  2. adj. Describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.
  3. adj. rhetoric Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
  2. adj. Previous; antecedent.
  3. adj. (Med.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

Etymologies

  1. prolepsis +‎ -ic (Wiktionary)

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