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

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

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

T. O Laertiades! what I foreshow To mortals, either will take place or no; For 'tis the voice of Phoebus from his shrine That speaks in me and makes my words divine.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John

I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

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 Pope, Alexander