proleptic
adjective
(of a date) retroactively calculated using a later calendar than the one used at the time.
proleptically
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a word derived from
proleptic.
Example Sentences
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This whole-hog study, the first of two volumes, just came out, and I haven’t finished it, but given its subject matter and publisher, its inclusion here seems proleptically justified.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2014
They were all ready to exclaim again: but I went on, proleptically, as a rhetorician would say, before their voices would break out into words.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
Its signification is too familiar to cause mistakes, and it can therefore be used proleptically, just as the name of the Philistines themselves is used proleptically in the twenty-first chapter of Genesis.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The adjective ‘congealed’ is used proleptically, the meaning being ‘froze into a stone so that it was congealed.’
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
He proceeds:— "The circumstantial description of the framing of the Heaven out of the waters proves that the words 'Heaven and Earth,' in the first verse, must be taken proleptically."
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
