foresignify

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verb

To indicate beforehand.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbforesignify (third-person singular simple present foresignifies, present participle foresignifying, simple past and past participle foresignified)

present singular third person foresignifies · participle present foresignifying · participle past foresignified · past foresignified

  1. transitiveTo indicate beforehand.

    They oft foresignify and threaten ill

    1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: foreshow, foretoken

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo indicate beforehand.

Origin

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