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foresignify, v.|fɔəˈsɪgnɪfaɪ|
[f. fore- prefix + signify v.]
trans. To signify beforehand. a. To betoken beforehand, prefigure, typify.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 348 In the Sacrament it selfe there is a thing foresignified. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 57 An exceeding great Ecclipse of the Sun.. was taken to fore-signifie his death. 1697Dryden Virgil Life (1721) I. 63 He hardly ever describes the rising of the Sun, but with some Circumstance, which fore-signifies the Fortune of the Day. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 559 That symbolic Blood, by which, foresignifying the new Covenant, He made them His own people.
†b. To intimate beforehand, foretell. With simple obj. or with object sentence. Obs.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §8 Christ had foresignified, that..his absence would soone make them apt to fast. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. vi. §3 His death..was foresignified vnto Perseus, by Calligenes. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 701 [Spectres] sometimes do fore-signifie unto men future events. 1695Bp. Patrick Comm. Gen. 271 God hereby fore-signified their Sins should be expiated by Sacrifices.
Hence foreˈsignifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1592tr. Junius on Rev. vi. 1 The foresignifying..of all the evils which God powreth out upon this world. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 285 Jonah..wore a foresignifying character. |