A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

anticipating and answering objections in advance

An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

A hyperplastic symptom of disease in which organs appear before the natural time. (Pl. prolepses.) ( 20)

A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

a figure in which a future situation is referred to as if it had already occurred. Example: "The first time he looked at me I was fucked." Not yet, really, but very soon.