Definition of Proliptic

{ Pro*lep"tic (?), Pro*lep"tic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. proleptique.]

1. Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative. "A far-seeing or proleptic wisdom." De Quincey.

2. Previous; antecedent. Glanvill.

3. (Med.) Anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.
a date or calendar which has been extended to days before that calendar started.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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