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1. A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
2. An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
3. The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
Origin: L, fr. Gr, from to take beforehand; before + to take.
(01 Mar 1998)
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