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† presigˈnificant, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. præsignificānt-em, pr. pple. of præsignificāre to presignify.]
Signifying or intimating beforehand. So † presigˈnificance, -ancy, the fact or quality of presignifying or foreshowing.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 192 My presignificant speache, and forewarning watchwordes, were counted vnworthy credite. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. xxi. 191 This Introductory Vision..may have some more general Presignificances of the state of things in the times it may thus presignifie. Ibid., This Roaring and Thundering has a presignificancy in general of the Calamities and Miseries that will befal that Party. |