verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.

   "That the promised Messias was to sit at the right hand of God , was both pretypified and foretold"

Synonyms

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adumbrateaugurbetokendemonstratedivineembody

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"That the promised Messias was to sit at the right hand of God , was both pretypified and foretold"

Etymology

From pre- + typify.

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