pretypify

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ typify

Verb

pretypify (third-person singular simple present pretypifies, present participle pretypifying, simple past and past participle pretypified)

1. To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
   • 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:

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

References

• “pretypify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.