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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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
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
Au′spicate, to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prog- nostication.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir
Tell.Ev'ry day such actions Occur in plenty: needs no sign or wonder To foreshow them.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James
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
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
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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)
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
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
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 Smith, Lewis Worthington
For what does foreshowing avail, if a thing shall certainly come to pass, and if there could be no averting of it either by human devices or by divine providence?
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
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 Conrad, Robert Taylor
The central episcopacy of forty-eight was regarded as “indicated by prophecy,” being foreshown in the forty-eight boards of the Mosaic tabernacle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" 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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
"What greater event could it have foreshadowed or foreshown, than that which actually came to pass?"
From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Kent, Cicely
And contrariwise, there are those who believe none thereof, save after they find themselves fallen into the peril foreshown.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
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