Usually means: Foreshadow or suggest something beforehand.
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  3. prefigure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prefigure: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. prefigure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. prefigure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prefigure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prefigure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prefigure, prefigure: Dictionary.com
  13. Prefigure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. prefigure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. prefigure: Rhymezone
  16. Prefigure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. prefigure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. prefigure: Free Dictionary
  19. prefigure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. prefigure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. prefigure: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. prefigure: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
verb:  To predict or foresee.
noun:  That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.

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