What's the difference between adumbrative and prefigurative?

Adumbrative


Definition:

  • (a.) Faintly representing; typical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
  • (2) The way companies now see themselves largely chimes with the vision adumbrated in 1990 by the management guru, Charles Handy, when he argued that companies were "communities not properties", and that profits were "a necessary but not sufficient condition of success".
  • (3) These conclusions and the rapidity of action of intravenously administered substances necessitated the adumbration of a new electrical hypothesis for the mechanism whereby signals pass from one part of the brain and spinal cord to another.
  • (4) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
  • (5) These data are interpreted as support for the hypothesis (first adumbrated nearly 20 years ago) that HLA antigens index unusual hormone concentrations, which in turn are causally related to the diseases.
  • (6) Just a few paragraphs before, Obama had adumbrated the Muhammad video explanation, saying: "Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
  • (7) In particular, private health insurers' potential role in cost control is explored, and some promising insurer strategies are adumbrated.
  • (8) Possibilities to overcome the radiation damage problem are adumbrated.
  • (9) She wrote two books in 1918, Married Love and Wise Parenthood, in which she adumbrated some of her eugenicist views.
  • (10) The purpose of this paper is to describe an aspect of the functioning of a therapeutic community conceptualized in terms of a sociotherapy framework as adumbrated, for example, by Edelson (1970), Rapoport (1960), and White et al.
  • (11) Further genetic advances required for development of recombinant BCG into an effective recombinant vaccine vehicle, including possibilities for oral administration, are adumbrated.
  • (12) The changing form and relations of PPTg and LDT are adumbrated including that of the microcellular nucleus (MI) to the former and of Barrington's detrusor nucleus (B) which is unstained, to the latter.

Prefigurative


Definition:

  • (a.) Showing by prefiguration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We give also a short description of risks caused by chemical agents in agricolture (with hygienic implications concerning consumers also) prefiguring, in conclusion, some hypoteses for the substitution of the chemical mean with alternative techniques and methods.
  • (2) If so, the fall in private vehicles in London recently recorded in the census could soon prefigure a wider decline from "peak car" use.
  • (3) The trading room tickers and the panicked trilby-topped brokers commemorated in our wallchart today prefigured four years of ubiquitous hardship, enforced idleness and mass displacement.
  • (4) Although Hartley's understanding of the central nervous system has long been superseded, his general ideas prefigure some aspects of contemporary neurophysiology and philosophy of mind and thus provide a further reason for rescuing his vibrationism from oblivion.
  • (5) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
  • (6) The book's brutal last line – "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood" – has been seen by some to prefigure war.
  • (7) No variants appearing to prefigure involution were identified either in term or in prolonged placentas.
  • (8) Spain's stance was prefigured in a secret document revealed by the Guardian this year, which showed that the previous Spanish government was planning to scupper the proposed ban.
  • (9) This prefigures a consideration of the nature of the concept of order in medical anthropology, science, and medicine.
  • (10) The onset of clinical immunodeficiency disease is prefigured by the replication of the FeLV-FAIDS variant virus in bone marrow and other tissues.
  • (11) The observations are novel in documenting the extent and precision to which a peripheral nerve pathway is prefigured by a contiguous assemblage of nonneuronal cells.
  • (12) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
  • (13) The high rates of HIV infection in these communities (5 to 20 percent of adults aged 25 to 45) and their linkage to widespread drug use prefigure the development of endemic levels in several population subgroups, with substantial risk of heterosexual spread.
  • (14) Palin’s emergence at the junction of politics, celebrity and conservative populism prefigured the rise of Trump.
  • (15) The new pope embarks on a programme of reform, but Hadrian's one-year reign comes to an end when he is assassinated by a pope-hating Scot, prefiguring the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II .
  • (16) Prevention presently tends to be seen as a medical specialty among others and perhaps prefigures a new form of medicine, the object of which would be the societal body more than the body of the sick individual.
  • (17) 50's triggered, EU27 will engage to safeguard its interests October 2, 2016 May’s position was prefigured by remarks from the trade secretary, Liam Fox , who used a major speech to hail Britain’s transition to a fully independent member of the World Trade Organisation after it leaves the EU as a “golden opportunity” for the UK to trade with the rest of the world.
  • (18) Many of these early stories prefigured his later work, with lonely young soldiers, girls with "lovely, awkward" smiles, and children waiting for post that never comes.
  • (19) Morris offered his own site, Vote.com, as a prefiguration of an emerging online, participatory culture.
  • (20) The Chinese authorities' historical tendency to unleash, then rein in, such demonstrations of anti-Japanese sentiment is, fittingly, prefigured in Orwell's prose as well: after all, such hate "could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp" – and could even be directed toward China's politburo itself.

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