preominate

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verb

To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.

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Meanings

verbpreominate (third-person singular simple present preominates, present participle preominating, simple past and past participle preominated)

present singular third person preominates · participle present preominating · participle past preominated · past preominated

  1. obsoleterareTo feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
  2. obsoleterareTo be a portent or omen of.

    Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.

    1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23

Origin

From pre- + ominate.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

permeation
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