(n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
(n.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
(n.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
(n.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the appearance of his 18th novel, Millennium People, Ballard demonstrated his powers of prolepsis once more: as anti-terrorist forces rolled into Heathrow airport in February 2003, Ballard was putting the finishing touches to his own work of urban terrorism, a novel which rips open with an explosion at Heathrow's Terminal 2.