proleptic

Meanings

1. Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
2. Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
3. Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)

1. An instance of prolepsis;
2. The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
3. Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.
4. A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
5. Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.

Etymology

From prolepsis (“anticipation”) + -ic.