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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 Herbert Baldwin Foster
To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
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
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 Noah Webster
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
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
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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
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
"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
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
For what does foreshowing avail, if a thing shall certainly come to pass, and if there could be no averting of it either by human devices or by divine providence?
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 Herbert Baldwin Foster
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
There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Such a closing scene one day to be repeated is foreshown to us, when we look at an ignorant and thoughtless father surrounded by his untaught children.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster
By mystic sign and symbol known, To Daniel, wise and meek, alone, Was Persia's coming wo foreshown.
From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Honeycomb.—Prosperous undertakings, honour and renown, and much which is delightful are foreshown by this symbol.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
The central episcopacy of forty-eight was regarded as “indicated by prophecy,” being foreshown in the forty-eight boards of the Mosaic tabernacle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
An old man who was there, Halitherses by name, a man skilled in the signs made by birds, told those who were around what was foreshown by the combat of the eagles in the air.
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
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