proleptic

Pertaining to prolepsis or anticipation; anticipatory; antecedent.

Specifically — In medicine: Anticipating the usual time: noting a periodical disease whose paroxysm returns at an earlier hour at every recurrence.

Prognostic.

In rhetoric, implying prolepsis.

Axiomatic; of the nature of prolepsis.

adjective

Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.

adjective

Previous; antecedent.

adjective

Anticipating the usual time; — applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

adjective

Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.

adjective

Describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.