foreshow
Americanverb (used with object)
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to show beforehand.
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foretell; foreshadow.
verb
Etymology
Origin of foreshow
before 1000; Middle English forescewen, Old English forescēawian. See fore-, show
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To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
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 Noah Webster
At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary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
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
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
Lift thy head and thyself baptize In the hopes that radiant rise, Heaven to earth foreshowing, And in each life-spark glowing!
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
As2 = Anticipatory suggestion, a foreshowing of something definite to happen, exciting the reader's curiosity to know what it is and how it is to be brought about.
From The Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith
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
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
I answer that, The effect of Christ's Passion was foreshown by the very manner of His death.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
CLXXXVIII The Place of his Sepulture is foreshown by a Light from 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
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
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
Tomatoes Growing.—An increase of worldly goods is foreshown by this sign.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
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