foreshow
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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 Webster, Noah
For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
Pyramids.—These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
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
He well may help these warriors," Sir Hagan straight began, "If ever by good fortune he come to be a man; Yet seems the young king's aspect no long life to foreshow.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown