Definitions For Proleptic

Adjective

Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the julian calendar or gregorian calendar. Of an event, assigned a date that is too early. (rhetoric) Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.

Quotations

1877, W. B. Pope., A Compendium of Christian Theology, Volume 2, Wesleyan Conference Office, 2 Castle Street, Coty Road; Sold at 66, Paternoster Row, p. 348: : It must be always remembered that this was the object for which the Three Chapters which the Predestinarians have taken refuge in: they were written in fact as a proleptical refutation of such views. 1925, John Dewey. Experience and Nature In The Later Works of John Dewey, Vol. 1, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale (IL), p. 150: : When we name an event, calling it fire, we speak proleptically; we do not name an immediate event; that is impossible. We employ a term of discourse; we invoke a meaning, namely, the potential consequence of the existence. 1989, W. Paul Jones. Theological Worlds Abingdon Press, Nashville, p. 151: : In World Two, Jesus can be seen as the proleptic event, giving promise of God's vindication of creation in and through history.

Synonyms

Anticipating and answering objections anticipatory

Derived terms

proleptically

Translations

Finnish: proleptinen French: proleptique, m, f, proleptique, m, f Russian: преждевре́менный

Etymology

prolepsis + ic