foreshow

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It is unquestionably true that “appointed signs foreshow the weather,” to a great extent, every where, but with more certainty in the climate in which Virgil wrote than in our variable and excessive one.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

Pipe.—A visit from a dear friend; several pipes foreshow news from a man who is much in your thoughts.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

This naturally seemed to foreshow what was to be.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir

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