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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And I will now foreshow thee what the Gods Teach me, and what, though neither augur skill’d Nor prophet, I yet trust shall come to pass.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
At least accomplish what your signs foreshow: I stand resign'd, and am prepar'd to go.'
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Henry W. Bellows
A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Ah me! my present woe Does but the pangs to come foreshow, Pangs that an end will never know.
From Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Goldwin Smith
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
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
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary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
But who, from the foreshowing and the bloom of sixteen years, may augur of the finish and the fruit of the three-score and ten, which are the sum of human toil and sorrow?
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
But Shelley seemed to us an incarnation of what was sought in the sympathies and desires of instinctive life, a light of dawn, and a foreshowing of the weather of this day.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
“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
There is a foreshowing of the same law in the Physiocratic view that only in the production of raw material is there a real excess over and above the cost—produit net.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Nail.—Toothache and painful dentistry are foreshown by this sign.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Such a closing scene one day to be repeated is foreshown to us, when we look at an ignorant and thoughtless father surrounded by his untaught children.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster
To far-sighted philosophers, indeed, this was a state of things long foreshown.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
By mystic sign and symbol known, To Daniel, wise and meek, alone, Was Persia's coming wo foreshown.
From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
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