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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Pyramids.—These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
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
I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
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 John Dryden
Since these and similar gloomy scenes foreshow future commotions, as we learn in the progress of time, all good men ought to avoid them.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Charles Duke Yonge
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
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From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
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
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
The day of Pentecost foreshowed the universality of some p. 65language.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
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
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
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
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
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 Arthur Hugh Clough
An old man who was there, Halitherses by name, a man skilled in the signs made by birds, told those who were around what was foreshown by the combat of the eagles in the air.
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
Altar.—If with a figure near, sorrow and distress are foreshown.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Tomatoes Growing.—An increase of worldly goods is foreshown by this sign.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
Nail.—Toothache and painful dentistry are foreshown by this sign.
From Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves by Cicely Kent
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 John Payne
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