(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.
Proleptical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.
(a.) Previous; antecedent.
(a.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of his earlier short fictions, "Downfall of the Heart" (whose original title, Untergang eines Herzens , is a proleptic echo of the German title of Beware of Pity – Ungeduld des Herzens , or the heart's impatience), a self-made businessman succumbs to a terrible decline after seeing, or imagining he has seen, his daughter sneaking out of a man's hotel room in the middle of the night.
(2) Bladder flap neourethroplasty is appropriate if the bladder size is adequate and if the bladder neck is incompetent, but stress incontinence is a common complication which must be anticipated and dealt with proleptically.
(3) This would include provision for superannuation, encouraging proleptic appointments to consultant posts, and secondment or early retirement of Consultants.
(4) They should look to the possibility of identifying suitable candidates, at present in training, and making proleptic appointments to allow appropriate training to be completed.
(5) All paediatric cardiac units should have a senior registrar and in the meantime it may be necessary to make proleptic appointments to consultant posts with arrangements for the appointees to complete their training.