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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Could it read their gentle lines, and foreshow by any ripple of its own, the destiny of her who looked upon it?
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The gods' foreknowledge on our swords will wait: If we fight well, they must foreshow good fate.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John
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
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
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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 Hall, Newton Marshall
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 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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 Clough, Arthur Hugh
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James
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
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 Roscher, Wilhelm
“Say Pan saith: ‘Let this, foreshowing the place, be the pledge!’”
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
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 Fuller, Margaret
And at that very time Mithridates, it is said, saw a vision in his dream foreshowing what should come to pass.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
So that the thing fell out to him just as the god had foreshown in a sacrifice.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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
Amongst whom grant me to be received this day as a pleasing sacrifice, such an one as thou thyself hast prepared, that so thou mayest accomplish what thou, O true and faithful God! hast foreshown.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
Bonosus, your friend, is now climbing the ladder foreshown in Jacob's dream.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
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