Home › Words › P › pretypifypretypifypretypify means to prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.EtymologyFrom pre- + typify.verbTo prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.e.g.“That the promised Messias was to sit at the right hand of God , was both pretypified and foretold” — 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).