presignification
English
Etymology
pre- + signification
Noun
presignification (plural presignifications)
- The act of signifying or showing beforehand.
- Isaac Barrow
- To this kind we may refer the presignification and prediction of future events, especially those which are contingent, and depend upon man's free choice; to the doing of which nothing is more evident in itself, nor more acknowledged by all, than that a power or wisdom supernatural is required […]
- Isaac Barrow
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for presignification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)