Prolepsis

·noun A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

II. Prolepsis ·noun A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

III. Prolepsis ·noun An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

IV. Prolepsis ·noun 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.