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The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

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Prognostic; previous omen.

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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indicatio…

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of Forebode

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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 phenome…

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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 phenome…

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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.

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Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.

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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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Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed…

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Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

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The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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