prefigure Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb imagine or consider beforehand
- It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
verb indicate by signs
omen; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
- These signs bode bad news

F. préfigurer, or L. praefigurare, praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf. Prefigurate.

imperfect & past participle Prefigured ; present participle & verbal noun Prefiguring

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.