Threaten: alternatives and connections

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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Auspicious.

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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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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 be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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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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To refuse.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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To bring into peril; to endanger.

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To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

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The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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