In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
PROLEPSIS
prolepsis
(noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prolepsis (countable and uncountable, plural prolepses)
(rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
(logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
(grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
(philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
(authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
Synonyms
• (representation of something that has occurred before its time): anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing
• (anticipation of objection to an argument): procatalepsis
• (grammar, rhetoric): left dislocation
Antonyms
• (botany): syllepsis
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*lep"sis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Rhet.) (a) A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall. (b) A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.
2. (Chron.)
Definition: An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.
3. (Gram.)
Definition: The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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