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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. sig. ☛iiij^v By the which tokens almighty God (no doubt) presignified, what greuous afflictions and bloudy persecutions should then begin to ensue upon his Church.

1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 32 The hottest Sommer presignifies the coldest winter.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 264 Owles and Ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events.

1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xxi. 191 This Introductory Vision..may have some more general Presignificances of the state of things in the times it may thus presignifie.

1702 ‘A. Phylopsyches’ Psychelogia iv. 96 These dreams signify a Man's natural Temper, or sickly Distemper, but do not presignify any thing.

1744 Trav. Late Charles Thompson II. 32 The Joints were anciently encircled with brazen Wreaths of Laurel; to presignify, according to some Writers, the many Years that Constantine should live.

1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxvii. 130 A long cloud resting on Hymettus in winter pre-signified a violent storm.

1800 J. Jones Devel. Remarkable Events 359 The gold denoting the extent and perpetuity of his kingdom, whilst the myrrh and frankincense presignify his sufferings.

1872 A. P. Forbes Kalendars Sc. Saints 336 Full of years, he presignified the day of his death.

1939 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 4 Aug. 11/6 The horoscope for their coming year promises money, it promises happiness—in short, a thoroughly satisfactory year from all points of view is presignified.

1993 D. E. Pease in A. Kaplan & D. E. Pease Cultures U.S. Imperialism iv. 563 Hiroshima..presignified the geopolitical fate of those nation-states which had not identified the paradigmatic event of the U.S. national narrative..as the ‘political truth’ of their nationhood.