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foretell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i.
To utter predictions.
--Acts iii. 24.
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretold; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretelling.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold.
--Pope.
Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
of his character.
--C.
Middleton.
Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
WordNet
v. foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald]
make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast, predict]
[also: foretold]
Usage examples of "foretell".
There, a number of recent raids by Alemanni on local farms and villages seemed to foretell a larger, better-planned movement by Chonodomarius in the near future.
Wyndham remarked that the Jews have a tradition which in itself is very probable, that the venerable man pointed out to Cyrus, after his conquest of Babylon, the verses in Isaiah, wherein he is spoken of by name, as conquering by the power of the Lord, and giving orders to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple: and also that other passage, in which the destruction of the Babylonish empire by the Medes is foretold, both prophecies being recorded more than a hundred years before the birth of the mighty king by whom they were accomplished.
Saint Augustine introduces the Erythrean Sibyl, who, he says, faithfully foretold the Life of the Saviour.
The dream, as Biorkis suggests, has been given as a warning for you to returnor a sign that you must be present to witness the event which is foretold and will take place soon.
The beasts knew what the nomads of the Lakht knew, what Hati had foretold.
As soon as the prescribed forms were gone through, Nito entered with one of the people, who, while under the demoniacal influence, foretold future events.
Evil One is, how he might even trick Nostradamus into misreading what the stars have foretold!
He spoke of his magical prescriptions, of the pride with which he foretold death, of his probable pederasty, of his libertine readings, of his life without God.
Thus the prophet Joel foretells the vengeance which God would take on Tyre and Sidon and Philistia, because they had assailed and scattered his people.
The prophets and priests of the Old Law were called mediators between God and man, dispositively and ministerially: inasmuch as they foretold and foreshadowed the true and perfect Mediator of God and men.
Kind, considerate, always listening to her, taking her advice, no secrets from her, everything that Wakura had foretold.
For just as he preached penance, and foretold the baptism of Christ, and drew men to the knowledge of the Truth that hath appeared to the world, so do the ministers of the Church, after instructing men, chide them for their sins, and lastly promise them forgiveness in the baptism of Christ.
I took these so-called revelations with calm, since my respect for the invisible world did not go so far as to give credence to such divine claptrap: ten years before, soon after my accession to power, I had ordered the closing of the oracle of Daphne, near Antioch, which had foretold my rule, for fear that it might do the same for the first pretender who should appear.
Kate had foretold: Audie had agreed to accompany them, and first the women and then Kate had interfered.
Had it been foretold to me some years ago that I should pass an evening with the authour of The Rambler, how should I have exulted!