Noah Webster
Prolepsis
PROLEP'SIS
PROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]
1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.
PROLEP'SIS
PROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]
1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.