Word Meanings - FORESIGNIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.

Related words: (words related to FORESIGNIFY)

• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• FORESHOW
  To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.
• TYPIFY
  To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance. Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness. Sir T. Browne. (more info) Etym:
• FORESHOWER
  One who predicts.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• PRESIGNIFY
  To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
• ADSIGNIFY
  To denote additionally. Tooke.
• PRETYPIFY
  To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type. Bp. Pearson.
• CONSIGNIFY
  To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.