PROLEPTIC; PROLEPTICAL

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

2.
a.

Previous; antecedent. Glanvill.

3.
a.

Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.