foreshow

Thus Dryden, in his version of the Tale of the Nun's Priest: Believe me, madam, morning dreams foreshow Th' events of things, and future weal or woe.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

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

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

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

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

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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary

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

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

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild

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

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

Sometimes the second-sight consists of a picture clearly foreshowing some coming event; more frequently, perhaps, the glimpse of the future is given by some symbolical appearance.

From Clairvoyance by C. W. (Charles Webster) Leadbeater

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

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

They chose the most shameful death of Roman slaves, that they might show their hatred and contempt, unwitting that each act and each word had been foretold and foreshown in their own Law and Prophets.

From The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Ind. See, madam, see the event by me foreshown: I envy not your chance, but grieve my own.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

Trees.—Good health and a pleasing assurance of coming prosperity and happiness; if surrounded by dots an inheritance of property in the country is foreshown!

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent

After a new world had been discovered, many scattered indications were then found to have foreshown it.

From The Life of Columbus by Sir Arthur Helps

How you and I should have dreaded this night and to-morrow, if they could have been foreshown to us a while ago!

From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau