foreshow

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Since these and similar gloomy scenes foreshow future commotions, as we learn in the progress of time, all good men ought to avoid them.

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

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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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

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

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

Pyramids.—These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth.

From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely