prefigure
verb
[ priːˈfɪɡə ]
• be an early indication or version of (something).
• "the Hussite movement prefigured the Reformation"
Similar:
foreshadow,
be an early indication of,
presage,
be a presage of,
be a harbinger of,
herald,
suggest,
indicate,
point to,
foretoken,
• imagine beforehand.
• "I lay awake, prefiguring the future"
Origin:
late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin praefigurare ‘represent beforehand’, from prae ‘before’ + figurare ‘to form, fashion’.
