Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRO-LEP'TIC, or PRO-LEP'TIC-AL
PRO-LEP'SIS, or PRO-LEP'SYPRO-LEP'TIC-AL-LY
PRO-LEP'TIC, or PRO-LEP'TIC-AL, a.
- Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.
- Previous; antecedent. – Glanville.
- In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every repetition. – Encyc.
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