Reference meaning
proleptic
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Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
Other meanings
2. adjective
Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
3. adjective
Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
4. noun
The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
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