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Definition of Presignifying
1. presignify [v] - See also: presignify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presignifying
Literary usage of Presignifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1832)
"... presignifying his resurrection from the Being then the obstinate Jews themselves
acknowledge one Messias was to die, and that a violent death ; being we ..."
2. An Exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1890)
"... but rather suppose and assert it as presignifying his resurrection from the
dead, from whence Abraham received him in a fgure ; we may Heb. xi. ..."
3. Sermons, by Hugh Blair, James Finlayson (1808)
"... •method of conveying important discoveries under figures and emblems, was not
peculiar to the sacred books. The spirit of God, in presignifying the ..."
4. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"Nicetas speaks of a skirmish between the crowes and ravens, presignifying the
irruption of the Scythians into Thracia. Appendix to Arcana Microcosmi, p. ..."
5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts (1869)
"... he appointed it to be the receptacle of the law, and covered it with the wings
of the cherubim, most evidently presignifying thee, the mother of God, ..."
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