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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

What if some demon should my death foreshow, Or bid me change, and to the Christians go; Will you not think I merit some reward, When I my love above my life regard?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.

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

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