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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1561-1659
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Pre-, Praefigure, v. P.t. and p.p. pre-, praefigurat(e, praefigurit, -ed. [Late ME (c 1450) and e.m.E., late and med. L. praefigūrāre, OF préfigurer (13th c. in Godef.).] tr. To represent beforehand as a figure or type, to foreshadow. 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 149/9.
The preistheid and oblatioun of Melchisedech prefigurate the preistheid of oure salueour and the sacrifice of the mes 1561 Ib. 158/16.
The sacrifice of the croce was prefigurate be mony diuers figuris and signis 1561 Ib. 163/18. 1562-3 Winȝet I 91/28.
That the samin names war appropriat to the preistis … præfiguring only Christe Iesus than to cum 1562-3 Ib. 116/4.
And that the Lordis coup … is præfigurat in the Auld Testament in mony places 1562-3 Ib. II 4/29.
Præfigurit 1581 Burne Disput. 45.
Cayn præfigurat the people of the Ieuis … Abel præfigurat Christ 1581 Ib. 31 b. c1590 Fowler II 65/4.
Prefigurat 1603 Philotus xli.
Ȝe haue ane douchter … Quhais phisnomie prefigures skill With wit and honestie 1622-6 Bisset II 182/4.
The twelt precius stones quhilk prefigurate the twelf trybis 1659 Fugitive Poetry II xxix 1/3.
Welcome my lord, you are The man praefigured by that forraine starre That visitt did the neather world
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