foreshow

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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

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

T. O Laertiades! what I foreshow To mortals, either will take place or no; For 'tis the voice of Phoebus from his shrine That speaks in me and makes my words divine.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

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

Prognos′ticāte, to foreshow: to foretell: to indicate as future by signs.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various