foreshow

To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

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

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

Thy father's battle-brand, of yore For Tine-man forged by fairy lore, What time he leagued, no longer foes His Border spears with Hotspur's bows, Did, self-unscabbarded, foreshow The footstep of a secret foe.

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir

The gods' foreknowledge on our swords will wait: If we fight well, they must foreshow good fate.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John

Tell.Ev'ry day such actions Occur in plenty: needs no sign or wonder To foreshow them.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas

But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

As a boy, he displayed signs of a singularly proud and independent temper, and foreshowed his bent by the delight which he took in the society of military men.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

There were many prodigies that foreshowed this victory, but the most remarkable that we are told of, was that at Tralles.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Then the light which appeared from heaven was taken up from their eyes, and foreshowed the ascension of the saint unto heaven.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James

Lift thy head and thyself baptize In the hopes that radiant rise, Heaven to earth foreshowing, And in each life-spark glowing!

From Poems and Songs by Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

I have translated "Anwá" by Pleiads; but it means the setting of one star and simultaneous rising of another foreshowing rain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given by some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given in some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance and Occult Powers by Panchadasi, Swami

"The Tale" is a prophetic vision of the destinies of Germany,--an allegorical foreshowing at the close of the eighteenth century of what Germany was yet to become, and has in great part already become.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

Now things come about as they were foreshown in the portent of that vision whereof I spoke to thee.

From The World's Desire by Haggard, Henry Rider

Trees.—Good health and a pleasing assurance of coming prosperity and happiness; if surrounded by dots an inheritance of property in the country is foreshown!

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely

To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

Yet even in these, I think, the restoration of an original law—the supremacy of righteous man, is foreshown.

From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George

Under this figure was foreshown Christ, the true and only First-born of God the Father and of the Virgin Mary, and a true King and Priest, not in a fleshly and earthly sense.

From Concerning Christian Liberty by Luther, Martin