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   pre·fig·ure

   /prēˈfiɡyər/

   verb

   • 1. be an early indication or version of (something): "the Hussite movement prefigured the Reformation"
   • 2. imagine beforehand: archaic "she had prefigured her small pilgrimage as made in solitude"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin praefigurare ‘represent beforehand’, from prae ‘before’ + figurare ‘to form, fashion’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. prefiguration noun
   • 2. prefigurative adjective
   • 3. prefigurement noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • P

     3

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • F

     4

   • I

     1

   • G

     2

   • U

     1

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

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