Word Meanings - PRESIGNIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

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• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• 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.
• INTIMATELY
  In an intimate manner.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• 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,
• PRESAGER
  One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• PRESIGNIFY
  To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
• ADSIGNIFY
  To denote additionally. Tooke.
• 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.