Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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PROLEP'SIS
PROLEP'SY, noun [Gr. to take.]
1. Anticipation; a figure in rhetoric by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
2. An error in chronology, when an event is dated before the actual time; an anachronism.
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