Here the early bent of his mind is clearly revealed; it prefigures the leading characteristics of his mature intellect.
The mystic pilgrimage to Assisi, the "Seraphic City," prefigures itself almost as a journey to the Mount of Vision.
To know the universe itself as a road,--as many roads," is the way in which the beckoning future prefigures itself to the artist temperament.
How clearly this prefigures to us the condition of the Christian Church!
Again the mythical account prefigures the reality, and this little marvelous story of the sea hints, yes, calls for the speed of modern navigation.
Life prefigures itself before us as a spiritual drama in which we are, at once, the actors and the spectators.
The first prefigures the Saviour's Ascension by his being carried up alive to Heaven in a chariot of fire; the second typifies Jesus saving and preserving mankind in the person of the Shunammite's son.
Jesus the son of Sirach prefigures the Messiah as a Prophet and a Doctor.
Charles the Great assumes the sobriety of empire; and his camp, in its well-ordered gravity, prefiguresthat of Goffredo in the Gerusalemme.
If the Rinaldo prefigures Tasso's maturer qualities of style, it is no less conspicuous for the light it throws upon his eminent poetic faculty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefigures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
