Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PRE-FIG'U-RATE – PRE-GRAV'I-TATE
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PRE-FIG'U-RATE, v.t. [See Prefigure.]
To show by antecedent representation. [Little used.]
Antecedent representation by similitude. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations had their punctual accomplishment in the author of this institution. – Norris.
Showing by previous figures, types or similitude. The sacrifice of the paschal lamb was prefigurative of the death of Christ.
PRE-FIG'URE, v.t. [L. præ, before, and figuro, to fashion.]
To exhibit by antecedent representation, or by types and similitude. In the Old Testament, things are prefigured, which are performed in the New. – Hooker.
PRE-FIG'UR-ED, pp.
Exhibited by antecedent signs, types or similitude.
PRE-FIG'UR-ING, ppr.
Showing antecedently by similitude.
PRE-FINE, v.t. [L. præfinio; præ, before, and finio, to limit; finis, limit.]
To limit beforehand. [Little used.] – Knolles.
PRE-FI-NI'TION, n.
Previous limitation. [Little used.] – Fotherby.
PRE'FIX, n.
A letter, syllable or word put to the beginning of a word, usually to vary its signification. A prefix is united with the word, forming part of it; hence it is distinguished from a preposition; as, pre, in prefix; con in conjure; with, in withstand. Prefixes are sometimes called particles, or inseparable prepositions.
PRE-FIX', v.t. [L. præfigo; præ, before, and figo, to fix.]
- To put or fix before, or at the beginning of another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word; to prefix an advertisement to a book; or an epithet to a title.
- To set or appoint beforehand; as, to prefix the hour of meeting. A time prefix, and think of me at last. – Sandys.
- To settle; to establish. I would prefix some certain boundary between the old statutes and the new. – Hale.
PRE-FIX'ED, pp.
Set before; appointed beforehand; settled.
PRE-FIX'ING, ppr.
Putting before; previously appointing; establishing.
PRE-FIX'ION, n.
The act of prefixing.
PRE-FLO-RA'TION, n.
In botany, the manner in which the floral envelops are arranged in a flower before they expand; estivation. – Lindley.
PRE-FORM', v.t. [pre and form.]
To form beforehand. – Shak.
PRE-FORM'A-TIVE, n. [L. præ, before, and formative.]
A formative letter at the beginning of a word. – M. Stuart.
PRE-FORM'ED, pp.
Formed beforehand.
PRE-FORM'ING, ppr.
Forming beforehand.
PRE-FUL'GEN-CY, n. [L. præfulgens; præ, before, and fulgeo, to shine.]
Superior brightness or effulgency. – Barrow.
PREG'NA-BLE, a. [Fr. prenable.]
That may be taken or won by force; expugnable. [Little used.] – Cotgrave.
PREG'NAN-CY, n. [See Pregnant.]
- The state of a female who has conceived, or is with child. – Ray.
- Fertility; fruitfulness; inventive power; as, the pregnancy of wit or invention. – Prior. Pregnance, in a like sense, is not used.
PREG'NANT, a. [L. prægnans; supposed to be compounded of præ, before, and geno, Gr. γενναω, to beget; It. pregnante; Sp. preñado.]
- Being with young, as a female; breeding; teeming.
- Fruitful; fertile; impregnating; as, pregnant streams. – Dryden.
- Full of consequence; as, a pregnant instance of infatuation. An egregious and pregnant instance how far virtue surpasses ingenuity. – Woodward.
- Easy to admit or receive. I am pregnant to good pity. [Not proper.] – Shak.
- Free; kind; ready; witty; apt. [Not proper.] – Shak.
- Plain; clear; evident; full. [Not to use.] – Shak.
PREG'NANT-LY, adv.
- Fruitfully.
- Fully; plainly; clearly. [Not used.] – Shak. South.
PRE'GRA-VATE, v.t. [L. prægravo.]
To bear down; to depress. [Not in use.] – Hall.
PRE-GRAV'I-TATE, v.i.
To descend by gravity. – Boyle.