PREFIG'URE, verb transitive [Latin proe, before, and figuro, to fashion.]
To exhibit by antecedent representation, or by types and similitude.
In the Old Testament, things are prefigured, which are performed in the New.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.