transitive. To come before, anticipate. rare.

transitive. To prophesy, foretell.

transitive. To indicate that (something) is going to take place; to presage, portend; to prefigure.

transitive. To foretell, portend, prefigure. Obsolete.

transitive. To be an early indication or version of; to foreshadow; (Theology) to represent beforehand by a figure or type.

transitive. To show or reveal in advance.

transitive. = prefigure, v. 1.

That has been represented beforehand or foreshadowed; prefigured. In 16th cent. as past participle. Cf. prefigurate, v.

transitive. Originally Theology. To represent beforehand by a figure or type; to be an early indication or version of; to foreshadow. Also: to…

figurative. transitive. To indicate the future occurrence or condition of; to give strong or reasonable grounds for expecting (future achievements or…

transitive. To foreshow, portend; to point out or make known beforehand. Also with clause as object.

transitive. To signify beforehand. To betoken beforehand, prefigure, typify.

transitive. To signify or intimate in advance.

To represent by a shadow or imperfect image; to indicate obscurely or in slight outline; to symbolize, typify, prefigure. Now chiefly with adverb…

transitive. To serve as the shadow thrown before (an object); hence, to represent imperfectly beforehand, prefigure. Also rarely (of a person), to…

transitive. To be indicative or suggestive of; to be a natural precursor of, to give warning of.

To be the precursor of (a future event, etc.).

transitive. To signify or indicate in advance; to pre-appoint, pre-assign.

transitive. To betoken or signify beforehand.

‘To prefigure, foreshow’ (Johnson). Obsolete.

transitive. Theology. To prefigure or foreshadow as a type; to represent in prophetic similitude. Also type forth, out.

intransitive. To point beforehand.

Of things: To indicate beforehand, give promise or warning of; to foreshadow, prefigure.

transitive. To be an early indication of; to foreshadow, presage, prefigure, portend.

Of things: To give notice of beforehand, indicate the approach of, foreshow.

transitive. To be a foretype of; to prefigure.

Of things: To betoken, portend.

transitive. To act as a harbinger to; to announce, presage.

transitive. To typify beforehand; to prefigure, foreshadow.

transitive. To prefigure; to foreshadow.

transitive. To speak beforehand; to speak of beforehand, esp. to fortell, predict. Now rare. †Occasionally of a thing: To betoken.

to figure out. transitive. To display or exhibit in visionary forms or shapes. Also, To exhibit obscurely, shadow forth. Obsolete.

(? from the n.) To take a forecast of (the sky, weather); to exhibit a forecast of; to foreshadow.

Of a circumstance, fact, etc.: To lend confirmation or support to (a belief, doctrine, rarely, a person); to point in the direction of.

transitive. To act as a precursor to; to herald (something). Also intransitive: to act as a precursor.

transitive. To be a precursor to; to run or occur before; to herald, portend.