foresignal

plural foresignals · alternative fore-signal

1. A signal made or given in advance; a foresign

   I later learn this fore-signal is called an aura, and that what I am experiencing is a form of epilepsy, a small 'focal' fit, affecting a speech centre.

   2012, Tom Lubbock, Until Further Notice, I Am Alive

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   Sequential redundancy may be introduced into discrete-response tasks by varying the amount of information conveyed by a foresignal about the reaction signal that is to follow it.

   1968, George Alexander Talland, Human aging and behavior: recent advances in research and theory

   [...] they could be seen as portents or prognostications, looking forward to some earthly catastrophe, or as precursors of the latter days, foresignals of the end of the world.

   2000, David Cressy, Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England

present singular third person foresignals · US participle present foresignaling · UK participle present foresignalling · US participle past foresignaled · US past foresignaled · UK participle past foresignalled · UK past foresignalled · alternative fore-signal

1. raretransitiveTo signal ahead of time

   For even if he ends his history without discussing any particulars of Hegel's work, the Hegelian dialectic of history is the structuring principle behind the work as a whole and the logical element of necessity that foresignals the death of the old God.

   1998, Roger F. Cook, By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections