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presignification Now rare.|priːˌsɪgnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. præsignificātiōn-em, n. of action from præsignificāre to presignify.]
The action of signifying or indicating beforehand; an indication or sign (of what is coming).
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1191 Then is not this a bare guesse..but a præsignification and denouncing peremptorily of such things as without faile shall be. a1677Barrow Wks. (1686) II. 130 There having scarce happened any considerable revolution..whereof we do not find mentioned in history some presignification or prediction. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 11 These ceremonies..were presignifications of..the evangelical dispensation. 1835J. P. Kennedy Horse Shoe R. v, R. directed his eye to the presignifications of good cheer that were now before him. 1838― Rob of Bowl xxv, The broad arrow, the mysterious presignification of mischief.
So presignificative |-ˈsɪgnɪfɪˌkeɪtɪv, -sɪgˈnɪfɪkətɪv| a., characterized by presignification, giving a forecast; † presignificator, one who or that which gives pre-intimation or pre-indication.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 79 Looke into the Semeioticall or presignificatiue iudgements of phisitions. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 297 The blowing of the Winds from several Coasts..are the truest Pre-significators of Thunder. |