be an early indication or version of (something)
预示;预兆
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the Hussite movement prefigured the Reformation .胡斯运动预示着宗教改革的到来。
〈古〉 预想,预见
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she had prefigured her small pilgrimage as made in solitude .她原来预想自己短程朝圣之行将是孤独之旅。
"late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin