prefigurative

English

Adjective

prefigurative (comparative more prefigurative, superlative most prefigurative)

1. Related to prefiguration; that prefigures.
   • 1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures:

     The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ

Derived terms

• prefiguratively
• prefigurativeness

References

• “prefigurative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.