prefigurative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

prefigurative
    adj 1: indistinctly prophetic [syn: {adumbrative},
           {foreshadowing}, {prefigurative}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prefigurative \Pre*fig"ur*a*tive\, a.
   Showing by prefiguration. "The prefigurative atonement."
   --Bp. Horne.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "prefigurative":
      apocalyptic, augural, auguring, divinatory, fatidic, forecasting,
      forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling,
      foretokening, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical,
      heavy with meaning, indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful,
      monitory, oracular, precursive, precursory, predictional,
      predictive, predictory, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory,
      presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic,
      prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant,
      vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise