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prefigurating

prefigurating is the present participle and gerund of prefigurate.

Meaning of prefigurate

Verb

prefigurate (third-person singular simple present prefigurates, present participle prefigurating, simple past and past participle prefigurated)

  1. (transitive) To prefigure.
    • This Mathuſalah or Mathuſalem, as the holy ſcripture ſayth, was of longeſt lyfe, and being borne in the viij. generation from Adam did prefigurate the .viij. age of the world, which ſhall be the time of the Reſurrection, which ſhall begin in the laſt day, and neuer after ſhall haue ende.1569, Richard Grafton, “The First Age, and First Part of this Chronicle”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume I, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for...

Questions about prefigurating

What is prefigurating the present participle and gerund of?
Prefigurating is the present participle and gerund of prefigurate.

Words near prefigurating in the dictionary

  1. prefight
  2. prefigurable
  3. prefigurate
  4. prefigurated
  5. prefigurates
  6. prefigurating
  7. prefiguration
  8. prefigurations
  9. prefigurative
  10. prefiguratively
  11. prefigurativeness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefigurating (page history and authors); prefigurate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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