foreshow

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

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

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

Sweetheart, be my sweetheart   In the mellow golden glow Of earth aflush with the gracious blush   Which the ripening fields foreshow; Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,   As into the noon we go!

From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field

Dreams, omens, auguries foreshow Our coming lot of weal and woe: But thou, my Ráma, couldst not see The grievous blow which falls on thee.

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

Stocks.—These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent

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

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary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

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

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

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

Prognos′tic, a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass.

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

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

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

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

Nature herself, by her heaps of vegetation, had foreshown the immense productiveness of the soil.

From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

Now things come about as they were foreshown in the portent of that vision whereof I spoke to thee.

From The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard

The death of a king was certainly foreshown, but who was the king was uncertain.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge