Associations to the word «Proleptic»
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Wiktionary
PROLEPTIC, adjective. Of a calendar, extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
PROLEPTIC, adjective. Of an event, assigned a date that is too early.
PROLEPTIC, adjective. (rhetoric) Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.