Serving as or functioning as a foretype; having been used as an early model or representation of something that followed.
Past participle of 'foretypify', from 'foretype' + '-ified' (made into or shown to be). This theological term gained prominence in 17th-century biblical scholarship and literary criticism.
This is a word biblical scholars used to analyze the Old Testament, claiming every major figure 'foretypified' someone in the New Testament—essentially the medieval version of finding hidden meanings in texts through elaborate pattern-matching.
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