foreshow

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

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

At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

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

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 Thomas Belden Butler

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 Noah Webster

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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 Arthur Hugh Clough

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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 Newton Marshall Hall

"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 John Lord

But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

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 Swami Panchadasi

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

I answer that, The effect of Christ's Passion was foreshown by the very manner of His death.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Last night I dreamt a dream; and still The fear and awe my bosom chill; For in that dream I saw foreshown Our race by Ráma's hand o'erthrown.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith

And contrariwise, there are those who believe none thereof, save after they find themselves fallen into the peril foreshown.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne

So that the thing fell out to him just as the god had foreshown in a sacrifice.

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

Thus, for instance, it was necessary that, in order to the understanding by man of the scheme of Redemption, that scheme should be foreshown from the beginning by the type of bloody sacrifice.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin