"prefigurative" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prefigurative",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prefigurative",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prefigurative (comparative more prefigurative, superlative most prefigurative)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures:",
          "text": "The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Showing by prefiguration."
      ],
      "id": "en-prefigurative-en-adj-avLmUin1",
      "links": [
        [
          "prefiguration",
          "prefiguration"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prefigurative"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more prefigurative",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most prefigurative",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prefigurative (comparative more prefigurative, superlative most prefigurative)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures:",
          "text": "The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Showing by prefiguration."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prefiguration",
          "prefiguration"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prefigurative"
}