proleptic

  1. 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.
  2. Adjective.  Describes an event as having been assigned too early a date.
  3. Adjective.  (rhetoric) Anticipating and answering objections before they have been raised; procataleptic.

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