To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.
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To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
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To foretell.
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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
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To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
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The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or bat…
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To appoint.
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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
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In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…
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A prophet.
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One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
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Sore; painful.
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A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…
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One who vaticinates; a prophet.
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To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.
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To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…
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To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
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To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
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That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
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That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
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Auspicious.
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To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
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To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
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To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
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To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
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An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…
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To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
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To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.
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Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
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