(v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.
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(4) Although Hartley's understanding of the central nervous system has long been superseded, his general ideas prefigure some aspects of contemporary neurophysiology and philosophy of mind and thus provide a further reason for rescuing his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.
Presage
Definition:
(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
(2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
(3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
(4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
(5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
(6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
(7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
(8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
(9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
(10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
(11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
(12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
(13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
(14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
(15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
(16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
(17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
(18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
(20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.