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Thus the dinner was complete, as forecast?
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portended
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vb. (en-past of: portend)
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Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended ; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending .] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position , Tend .] To indicate (events, misfortunes, ...
Usage examples of portended.
Surely the appearance of the sword after so many centuries portended tremendous change and challenge.
A malformed or stillborn Beltane child portended famine and plague next year.
But those occurrences, whatever they might have portended, were in the past.
If this was a portent, how serious a calamity must have been portended by a plague which, whether portent or no, was in itself a serious calamity!
Each wakanisha had shared the dream, and none doubted it was a true dream, but as to its interpretation, what it portended for the People, there was only discord.
The signs portended great danger, and dangerous times required risky measures.