Relating to the representation or assumption of a future act or development as if presently existing or accomplished. The novel's proleptic narrative style reveals the protagonist's fate in the opening chapter.
(Rhetoric) Anticipating and answering possible objections in advance. The lawyer's proleptic statement addressed every counterargument before it could be raised.
Pertaining to a calendar or dating system applied retroactively to times before its official adoption. Historians often refer to dates before 1582 using the proleptic Gregorian calendar.