1. (n.) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

2. (n.) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

3. (n.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

4. (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.

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