Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-LEP'SIS, or PRO-LEP'SY, n. [Gr. προληψις, from προλαμβανω; προ and λαμβανω, to take.]

1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented. – Bramhall.
2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism. – Theobald.