proˈthetical, a.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
? Having the quality of putting forth into view, or exhibiting.
1837 Fraser's Mag. XVI. 91 A poet is necessarily a synthetical, if, indeed, he be not rather a higher, a prothetical agent. Ibid. 258 The language of Scripture..the style not being so much symbolical or typical as prothetical, if we may coin the word; the natural things which we too generally understand as figures of speech..being used not only as direct exponents of the spiritual,..but as one and the same with them. |