proleptic
adjective
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Pronunciation: /pɹoʊˈlɛptɪk/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English prolepsis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English proleptic From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.
- Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
“The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon.”
“The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction in 1582.”
- Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
“A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom.”
“In contrast with physical death, spiritual death might be called metaphorical. It becomes proleptic when contrasted with the second and final death.”
- Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
“a 'proleptic' epithet describing the result of the hunt, means literally 'with leafage broken' and is formed from the stem of ἀγνύναι.”
“There was no proleptic suffix in Moabite, according to the present evidence.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English prolepsis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English proleptic From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.
- An instance of prolepsis;
- An instance of prolepsis;
- An instance of prolepsis;
- Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.