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▪ I. foretoken, n.|ˈfɔətəʊk(ə)n|
Also 6 Sc. corruptly foreta(i)king.
[OE. foretácn (= OHG. forazeichan), f. fore- prefix + tácn, token.]
A premonitory token; a prognostic.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xl. §2 Hit sie foretacn ecra goda. c1175Lamb. Hom. 87 And wes iseȝen godes fortacne uppon ane dune. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2994 Ðis fortoken godes gastes is. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxvii. 43 He set..his for-taknes in felde of Than. 1393Gower Conf. I. 137 To him a foretokne [MS. aforetokne] he sende. 1562Winȝet Cert. Tract. Wks. 1888. I. 24 Ane gret portent and foretaiking of ignorance. 1580Ord. of Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 571 We find not that any such foretoken happened against the coming of this earthquake. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 523 There are in Swine many presages and foretokens of foul weather. 1713R. Nelson Life Bp. Bull lv. (1714) 304 A foretoken of his future Incarnation. 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 340 The foretoken has always been found to be true. 1858Torrey Neander's Ch. Hist. IX. ii. 568 The foretokens of a thoroughly antichristian tendency.
▪ II. foretoken, v.|fɔəˈtəʊk(ə)n|
[f. prec. n. OE. had foretácnian in same sense.]
trans. To be a foretoken of; to indicate or betoken beforehand.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. xv. viii. (1622) 232 There hapned..a dolefull chance, but yet..foretokening good luck. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 312 The northern [waterfall] sounding clear and loud, fore-tokeneth fair weather. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 300 The evidence..foretokening that..the graces propounded to us in Christ are what he needs. 1867R. Palmer Life Philip Howard 150 Mutterings..which..foretokened the greatest evils.
Hence foreˈtokening vbl. n.
a1300E.E. Psalter lxx[i]. 7 Made am I als for-takeninge [Vulg. tanquam prodigium] Unto mani. 1600Holland Livy vi. 245 The Dictatour..hath given a good foretokening and presage of a consull Commoner. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1876) II. i. vii. 128 Such general foretokenings are borne out..in the Vandalic conquest of Africa. |