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11 words match “REFIGURE”

REFIGURE v.
To figure again. Shak.
PREFIGURE v.
nnounce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.
PREFIGUREMENT n.
The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
FIGURE v.
To prefigure; to foreshow. In this the heaven figures some event. Shak.
PREFIGURATE v.
To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.
PREFIGURATION n.
The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.
PRETYPIFY v.
To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.
PROPHESY v.
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. Shak.
SIGN n.
Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea; a type; hence, sometimes, a picture. The holy symbols, or signs, are not barely significative; but what they represent is as certainly delivered to us as the symbols themselves. Brerewood. Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory. Spense…
SYNASTRY n.
rence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation. [R.] Motley.
TYPE v.
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White (Johnson).