Meaning of FORETOKEN
| Pronunciation: | | [n]'fowr`towkun, [v]fowr'towkun, fowr'towkun
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| | Definition: | | [n] an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" |
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| | Synonyms: | | augury, preindication, sign |
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| | See Also: | | experience, omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, war cloud | |
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\Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See {Token}.]
Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney.
\Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretokened}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Foretokening}.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore +
t[=a]cnian.]
To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
--Daniel.
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| | Related Terms: | | adumbration, augur, augury, auspice, badge, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bode, boding, divine, forebode, forerunner, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indicant, indicate, indication, inkling, intimation, mark, mean, note, omen, ostent, point to, portend, portent, precursor, prefiguration, prefigure, preindicate, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presign, presignal, presignify, presignifying, pretypify, prognostic, prognostication, promise, shadow, sign, signify, soothsay, spell, suggestion, symptom, token, tokening, type, typify, warning |
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