rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To be a foretype of; to prefigure.

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a. 1618.  Sylvester, Maidens Blush, 409.

        A Day full oft to be fore-typ’t, fore-told,
Fore-promised by by Prophets manifold.

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1839.  Bailey, Festus (1848), 32/2.

        O Thou!… Whom all the faiths and creeds, and rites of old
As now and ever, to the end of Time,
In precognition of eternal truth
Foreshadowed and foretyped, hear Thou, Heaven-throned!

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