Definitions from Wiktionary (proleptic)

▸ adjective:  (of a calendar) Extrapolated to dates prior to its first adoption; of those used to adjust to or from the Julian calendar or Gregorian calendar.
▸ adjective:  Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking.
▸ adjective:  Exhibiting or pertaining to prolepsis (any sense)
▸ noun:  An instance of prolepsis;
▸ noun:  The placement of an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
▸ noun:  Information about the outcome of a story placed near the beginning.
▸ noun:  A lateral branch that develops from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
▸ noun:  Something that predicts or implies the future or outcome.



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