foreshow

To foreshow the sins to be treated on the three upper terraces, where are punished those who yielded to the sins of the body, Dante represents himself as tempted by a Siren.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery

Foresignify, fōr-sig′ni-fī, v.t. to betoken beforehand: to foreshow: to typify.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

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

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

The approaching hour appeareth great with woe: Some guile-born misery doth Fate foreshow.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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

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

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

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

As2 = Anticipatory suggestion, a foreshowing of something definite to happen, exciting the reader's curiosity to know what it is and how it is to be brought about.

From The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith

But who, from the foreshowing and the bloom of sixteen years, may augur of the finish and the fruit of the three-score and ten, which are the sum of human toil and sorrow?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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

Nay, the Revolution itself is foreshown in a remarkable glimpse of conjectural prophecy which occurs in the "Telemachus."

From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson

CLXXXVIII   The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from 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

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

But time and a right life alone Fulfil the promise then foreshown.

From Victories of Love by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

"What greater event could it have foreshadowed or foreshown, than that which actually came to pass?"

From Questionable Shapes by William Dean Howells