Definition of prolepsis

• n. - A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
• n. - A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
• n. - An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
• n. - 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.