Prolepsis
[prә'lepsis]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Montague
Definition
n. (rhet.) a figure by which objections are anticipated and answered: the dating of an event before its proper time:—pl. Prolep′sēs.—adjs. Prolep′tic -al.—adv. Prolep′tically.
Typed by Duane