foreshow

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This naturally seemed to foreshow what was to be.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

What if some demon should my death foreshow, Or bid me change, and to the Christians go; Will you not think I merit some reward, When I my love above my life regard?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

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

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 Field, Eugene

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

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