To be a token, sign, or omen of; to give promise of, augur, presage.

Of things: To give promise of, be indicative of, betoken, portend.

transitive. To predict, foretell, presage (an event or outcome), to prognosticate (something); (Medicine) to make a prognosis concerning (a disease…

transitive. To lay claim to or profess to have (a quality, state, etc.). Now only: to lay false claim to, affect, feign, or put on (a quality…

transitive. Of a thing: to betoken or presage (a future event, consequence, outcome, etc.); to indicate beforehand.

transitive. To signify (something) to be an omen; to presage, forebode, or prophesy; (also) to wish (a particular outcome, as good or ill luck). Also…

transitive. To signify (something coming in the future); to portend. Now rare.

transitive. = prognosticate, v.

transitive. To portend. Obsolete.

transitive. To constitute a supernatural sign of (a future event); to be an omen of, to portend.

transitive. To presage, foretell (usually something bad). Cf. bode, v.1 3, forebode, v. 1. Now rare.

= bode, v.1

transferred. Of things: To make known or announce, esp. in the manner of a sign or portent; to portend. Obsolete.

transitive. To signify, portend. Cf. import, v. 1d. Obsolete.

transitive. To presage. Cf. judicial astrology at astrology, n. 1b. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To be a foretoken of; to indicate or betoken beforehand.

transitive. To be an omen or sign of; to presage, betoken.

transitive. To give omen of, betoken, prognosticate. Obsolete.

Of things: To point out, foreshow, prognosticate, portend. Obsolete.

To deem or account in advance.

To guarantee as true, make oneself answerable for (a statement). To promise or predict as certain. Also, of a thing: To be a sure presage of. Obsolete…

transitive. To portend or presage (a future event or situation); to be a prior sign or indication of.

transitive. To prognosticate, portend.

transitive. To warn (a person) beforehand. In early use also: †to give warning of (an event) beforehand (obsolete). Also intransitive: to give…

transitive. To foretell, predict, prognosticate. Also: to denote, signify.

transitive. To be an omen of; to portend, predict.

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

transitive. To be a sign or warning of; to presage, portend. Also: to mark with omens.

To bode, betoken.

To tell of or betoken beforehand; to prognosticate, augur.