The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proleptic \Pro*lep"tic\, Proleptical \Pro*lep"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. proleptique.]
Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. ``A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom.''
--De Quincey.Previous; antecedent.
--Glanvill.(Med.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar. 2 Of an event, assigned a date that is too early. 3 (context rhetoric English) Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.
Wikipedia
Proleptic may refer to:
- Proleptic calendar, a calendar that is applied to dates before its introduction
- Proleptic syllogism, a class of syllogism in logic
Usage examples of "proleptic".
Then, boom, into a null-g suite, with a proleptic copula imbedded in their gliomas.
GENERALSHIP History, we may fear, will never know the qualities of leadership inherent in Sir Willoughby Patterne to fit him for the post of Commander of an army, seeing that he avoided the fatigues of the service and preferred the honours bestowed in his country upon the quiet administrators of their own estates: but his possession of particular gifts, which are military, and especially of the proleptic mind, which is the stamp and sign-warrant of the heaven-sent General, was displayed on every urgent occasion when, in the midst of difficulties likely to have extinguished one less alert than he to the threatening aspect of disaster, he had to manoeuvre himself.
The senile old genius and his disturbed proleptic protege Gloch had altered it, god only knew how.
The pistol shot an instant earlier could almost have been a proleptic reflection, confused in memory with the sun-bright cyan glare of the tank cannon--and, by being confused, forgotten.
He glanced up from the encoded intel-repo and watched with distaste his mysteriously—and rather repellently—gifted proleptic co-worker, Gregory Gloch, in his clanking, whirring anti-prolepsis chamber.
One is once again subscribing nodally to a proleptic peculiarity in the human sexternion!
As for dealing with the dyspepsia, he had never in his life seen so many palliatives for it available -- Stums and Windkill and Eupep and (magnificent proleptic onomatopoesis, the work of some high-paid Madison Avenue genius, sincerely admired by Enderby) Aaaarp.