Word Meanings - FORETOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORETOKEN)

• Prognosticate
• Foretell
• presage
• predict
• forebode
• foretoken
• augur
• portend
• indicate
• betoken

Related words: (words related to FORETOKEN)

• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• AUGUR
  An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences. 2. One who foretells events by omens;
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• AUGURER
  An augur. Shak.
• AUGURIAL
  Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• PREDICTOR
  One who predicts; a foreteller.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• AUGUROUS
  Full of augury; foreboding. "Augurous hearts." Chapman.
• INDICATED
  Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power.
• FORETELL
  To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;
• AUGURSHIP
  The office, or period of office, of an augur. Bacon.
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• AUGURY
  1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
• FORETOKEN
  Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• AUGURAL
  Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.
• INAUGURATE
  Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton. (more info) omens from the flight of birds (before entering upon any important undertaking); hence, to consecrate, inaugurate, or install, with such
• INAUGURATION
  1. The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne. 2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,
• UNPREDICT
  To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.
• INAUGURATOR
  One who inaugurates.
• CONTRAINDICATE
  To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.
• VINDICATE
  1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain
• REINAUGURATE
  To inaugurate anew.