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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREFIGURATIVE

a.Showing by previous figures, types of similitude. The sacrifice of the paschal lamb was prefigurative of the death of Christ.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PREFIGURATIVE

PREFIGURATIVE Pre *fig "ur *a *tive, a.

 

Defn: Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement. " Bp. Horne.