foreshow

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

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Prognos′ticāte, to foreshow: to foretell: to indicate as future by signs.—n.

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

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

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 by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

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