proleptic
/pɹoʊˈlɛptɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
adj
adj
Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
Example Sentences
- "The Julian proleptic calendar is formed by applying the rules of the Julian calendar to times before Caesar's reform, and the Julian date (JD) specifies the particular instant of a day by ending the Julian day number with the fraction of the day elapsed since the preceding Greenwich noon."
- "The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction in 1582."
- "The .NET epoch is midnight at the start of January 1st, AD 1, although that's AD 1 in a proleptic Gregorian calendar, which refers to even more complexity we haven't talked about yet."
- "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom."
- "In contrast with physical death, spiritual death might be called metaphorical. It becomes proleptic when contrasted with the second and final death."
- "Herbert Gorman’s life of Joyce was written not only when Finnegans Wake was a long way from completion but with the handicap of the subject himself insisting on a hagiography featuring a prolonged, if proleptic, martyrdom."
Etymology
Etymology tree English prolepsis Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English proleptic From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.