foreshow

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For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

Could it read their gentle lines, and foreshow by any ripple of its own, the destiny of her who looked upon it?

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Betoken, be-tō′kn, v.t. to show by a sign: to foreshow.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Thus Dryden, in his version of the Tale of the Nun's Priest: Believe me, madam, morning dreams foreshow Th' events of things, and future weal or woe.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander