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Meanings of prefigure in English

Portuguese
prognosticar
Catalan
augurar
Spanish
predecir

Indicate by signs.

prognosticar
Usage of prefigure in English
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The latest newspapers Redwood had did but vaguely prefigure these imminent things.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
2
All three prefigure Kill Bill's central theme of wronged women seeking revenge.
The Guardian
3
Christ's millennial reign may prefigure the fulfillment of God's promises about Jerusalem's future.
Heaven
4
And now that she could begin to sit up it did prefigure recovery.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
5
Does it not prefigure the wayward and fantastic progress of a storm-tossed life?
Z. Marcas
6
He found the verses in the Psalms that were supposed to prefigure the telegraph:-
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
7
Even so, the shockingly bad data could prefigure real problems.
Reuters
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But in plate tectonics momentary peace may imply prefigure a cataclysm of unprecedented magnitude.
The new yorker
9
The necessities of the old man prefigure and forerun the dawn of the immortal childhood.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 3
10
Like a bad omen, the artist's work begins to prefigure more serious real life events.
Radio NZ
11
While comparing the early emblems which prefigure the primitive elements in the god-idea, Hargrave Jennings observes:
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
12
His career it would be difficult to prefigure.
The House of the Seven Gables
13
Why do they prefigure the fall of nations?
Wolf hall
14
This game is intended to prefigure death.
A History of Nursery Rhymes
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It explains the Israeli attack yesterday on his personal facilities and seems to prefigure a wider military assault.
The Irish Times
16
The Lyric shows how the Finite may prefigure the Infinite, by illustrations derived from science and from love.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
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Translations for prefigure
Spanish
predecir
Prefigure through the time