Proleptic
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Proleptic
Adjective
- Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
- Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
- Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
Noun
- An instance of prolepsis; The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning. A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
- Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.
- A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.
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