PROLEP'TICAL, a. Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation.
1. Previous; antecedent.2. In medicine, anticipating the usual time; applied to a periodical disease, whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every repetition.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.