prefigure

prefigure [ pree-FIG-yer ]
[ transitive verb ]

MEANING :
1. to foreshadow or show beforehand
2. to imagine or picture beforehand
3. to suggest or represent by an antecedent

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
The novel titled “Twenty thousand leagues under the sea” written by Jules Verne prefigured the invention of the submarine.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
In the soaring dreams of Daniel Burnham and the hellish ones of Henry Holmes, Larson has paired two unlikely stories that paint a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come.