The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prefigure \Pre*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Prefigured; p. pr. & vb. n. Prefiguring.] [F.
pr['e]figurer, or L. praefigurare, praefiguratum; prae before
+ figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf. Prefigurate.]
To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and
similitudes; to foreshadow. ``Whom all the various types
prefigured.''
--South.
Wiktionary
n. (context gerund of prefigure English) A specific instance in which something is prefigured vb. (present participle of prefigure English)
Usage examples of "prefiguring".
It was a long lonely drive under cloudless skies, prefiguring in a way the final drive I took with Jamie.
But none but a contentious man can suppose that there was no prefiguring of the church in so manifold and circumstantial a detail.
This violation of my space seems a prefiguring of what they plan to do to me, a casual dismissal of my rights.
What voices overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder, viciously, tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost?
The hero, the wonderful young Parisian, in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.