prefigure

/pɹɪfˈɪɡɐ/

/pɹɪfˈɪɡjɚ/

[verb]

to prefigure

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to perceive something as a sign that indicates the occurrence of something good or evil

synonyms : augur

imagine or consider beforehand

Examples

1. It prefigures what the soul ought to be.

2. In this case, art was prefiguring science and predicting evolution itself.

3. But in your case that split was already prefigured by the split between the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

4. The American Civil War was prefigured by roughly 20 years of ferocious debate on the whole gamut of issues from slavery itself to states' rights to the nature of racial difference.