foresignifyv.
/fɔːˈsɪɡnɪfʌɪ/ transitive. To signify beforehand.† b. To intimate beforehand, foretell. With simple object or with object sentence. Obsolete.
a. To betoken beforehand, prefigure, typify.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
to say beforec1384
signifyc1384
pretendc1425
prefigurec1429
preostendc1429
prefigurate1530
prefigurate1530
adumbrate1537
promise1556
premonstrate1562
foresignify1565
presignify1570
shadow1574
foreshadow1577
presage1583
fore-run1590
presign1590
fore-read1591
figure1595
type forth, out1596
fore-point1601
foreshow1601
prophesy1608
foretella1616
foretypea1618
forebode1656
harbingera1657
pretypify1658
pretype1659
forespeak1667
to figure out1721
forecast1883
favour1887
precourse1888
precursea1892
1565 J. Jewel tr. St. Augustine in Replie Hardinges Answeare xii. 469 In the Sacrament it selfe there is a thinge foresignified.
1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 57 An exceeding great Ecclipse of the Sun.. was taken to fore-signifie his death.
1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. **3 He hardly ever describes the rising of the Sun, but with some circumstance which fore-signifies the Fortune of the Day.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 559 That symbolic Blood, by which, foresignifying the new Covenant, He made them His own people.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > predict, foretell [verb (transitive)]
fore-sayc900
bodeOE
before-sayOE
before-tella1382
foretella1400
prognostica1400
tella1400
prenosticate?a1475
prenostic1477
prognosticatec1487
forespeak1489
prognostify1495
foreshow1561
prenunce1563
presage1569
boden1573
forewarn1582
predict1590
forehalsen1594
foresignify1597
prognosticon1602
predivine1607
forespell1611
predicate1623
prenuntiate1623
preadmonish1644
forebode1664
prediction1665
prenotea1711
bespeak1721
pre-announce1793
prophesize1848
to call for ——1895
pick1909
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. §8 Christ had foresignified, that..his absence would soone make them apt to fast.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §3. 723 His death..was foresignified vnto Perseus, by Calligenes.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Sextus Empiricus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 701 [Spectres] sometimes do fore-signifie unto men future events.
1695 S. Patrick Comm. Genesis 271 God hereby fore-signified their Sins should be expiated by Sacrifices.
Derivatives
foreˈsignifying n. and adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun]
prophecyc1330
prognosticationc1450
foresaying1548
foretelling1548
prediction1561
foresignifying1592
predict1609
prenunciation1623
bodement1826
predication1845
second-guessing1946
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [adjective]
prognostica1500
prefigurative?1504
prenunciative1555
presignificant1576
shadowing1579
presignificative1588
prenuncious1656
umbratica1677
forecoming1860
foresignifying1860
1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis vi. 1 The foresignifying..of all the evils which God powreth out upon this world.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 285 Jonah..wore a foresignifying character.
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