Cognition therefore entails recollection and the ideas of things with which the mind thinks are therefore anticipations - Cudworth adopts the Stoic term prolepsis to denote them. From Wordnik.com. [The Cambridge Platonists] Reference
It is from perception that we draw our general ideas by a kind of prolepsis (πρόληψις) an anticipation or laying hold by reason of that which is implied in sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
This is a prolepsis; for the battle was fought in 1640. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
In the word Succoth, as Moses shortly afterwards shows, there is a prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
This destiny will happen, even though my prolepsis fails in showing me the how and when. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Moses called that country the land of Edom by the figure prolepsis, because it afterwards began to be so called. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
This woman was blessed-or afflicted-with more than the ordinary Shipspouse's share of the metafaculty of prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
These historians, he argued, have distorted the past through the cardinal sins of anachronism, teleology, and prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [Hay, Samuel Johnson] Reference
But now it becomes obvious that my prolepsis recognized that tiny kernel of psychic validity in their aberrant mind-set. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Terah and Abram departed from their own country, that they might come into the land of Canaan: the solution is easy, if we admit a prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
But I rather think there is a prolepsis; and that Moses called the city by the same name, which afterwards was imposed by a more recent event. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Moreover, there is a manifest prolepsis in the word Bethel; for Moses gives the place this name, to accommodate his discourse to the men of his own age. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
Others suppose a prolepsis, as if Jacob was speaking of a future acquisition of the land: a meaning which, though I do not reject, seems yet somewhat forced. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
For the solution of Augustine is weak, that Stephen, by a prolepsis, enumerates also three who afterwards were born in Egypt; for he must then have formed a far longer catalogue. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
So, the logic that brought you to this point, comments etc, should also lead you to fire somebody every Friday and post a story that is part mission statement, and part journalism prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [PubliCola Expanding News Coverage « PubliCola] Reference
But there is a curious prolepsis of the spermatozoa-theory. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
After my visit to Guroian's prolepsis of Paradise, I thought that. From Wordnik.com. [Audition] Reference
It was a prolepsis of the soul, reaching upward towards its source and goal. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
These words are brought in by way of prolepsis to anticipate and prevent an objection. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11] Reference
+ The sacred name occurs in Genesis about 156 times; this frequent occurrence can hardly be a mere prolepsis. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
Robert Stephens in 1556, could in that year have presented, by prolepsis, to its precocious owner a version which Bened. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
This figure of retire holds part with the propounder of which we spake before (prolepsis) because of this resumption of a former proposition vttered in generalitie to explane the same better by a particular diuision. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
It is the mysterious sentiment of the Divine; it is the prolepsis of the human spirit reaching out towards the Infinite; the living susceptibility of our spiritual nature stretching after the powers and influences of the higher world. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
439 Easterns attribute many complaints (such as toothache) to worms, visible as well as microscopic, which may be held a fair prolepsis of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
An instance of prolepsis, or. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Lake] Reference
A fair prolepsis of the Neptunian theory. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
347 A prolepsis of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
6. prolepsis F. elision. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
But that's a prolepsis. ". From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
Premonition forewarning prolepsis precept prothesis proposition. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
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