proleptic

adj

1. Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.

   “The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon.”

   “The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction in 1582.”

   “The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet.”

2. Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.

   “A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom.”

   “In contrast with physical death, spiritual death might be called metaphorical. It becomes proleptic when contrasted with the second and final death.”

   “Herbert Gorman’s life of Joyce was written not only when Finnegans Wake was a long way from completion but with the handicap of the subject himself insisting on a hagiography featuring a prolonged, if proleptic, martyrdom.”

   “In World Two, Jesus can be seen as the proleptic event, giving promise of God's vindication of creation in and through history.”

   “In a world of youth idolatry, we easily lose our proleptic quality after the first peak, and become regressive, looking back toward the peaks already passed.”

3. Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)

   “a 'proleptic' epithet describing the result of the hunt, means literally 'with leafage broken' and is formed from the stem of ἀγνύναι.”

   “There was no proleptic suffix in Moabite, according to the present evidence.”

   “Starting in the spring of the second year, one terminal indeterminate floral shoot ( I ) was included at every terminal proleptic shoot ( L ) that arose from each proleptic and sylleptic shoot in the summer and full flush of the previous year.”

   “Submission, as is fitting for a dystopia written in the mode of the “not yet”, ends in a proleptic future tense, speaking of what will come for François and (with rather less authorial interest) for the people of France.”

   “8) Be proleptic, a word that comes from the Greek for “anticipation.” That is, get the better of the major objection to your argument by raising and answering it in advance.”

noun

1. An instance of prolepsis;
2. An instance of prolepsis;
3. An instance of prolepsis;
4. Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.