Prolepsis

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.

2. A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

3. An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

4. 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.