Word Meanings - PRENUNCIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Announcing beforehand; presaging. Blount.

PRESAGIOUS
Foreboding; ominous.
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
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.
ANNOUNCE
+ nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See 1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
PRESAGEFUL
Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
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,
ANNOUNCEMENT
The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.
ANNOUNCER
One who announces.
PRESAGER
One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.
PREANNOUNCE
To announce beforehand. Coleridge.