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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 John Dryden

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

To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne

Ah me! my present woe Does but the pangs to come foreshow, Pangs that an end will never know.

From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith

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

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

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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

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 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

"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

They even have a strong belief that the spirits show them the future in dreams; and say that cases of affliction are always foreshown in a dream.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz

Yet was this fate to thee foreshown,   Instead of craving thus the knightly course,   Better mine embassy wouldst thou have done.

From Orlando Furioso by William Stewart Rose

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

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

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