presignify

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verb

To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

OriginLatin praesignificare →
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Meanings

verbpresignify (third-person singular simple present presignifies, present participle presignifying, simple past and past participle presignified)

present singular third person presignifies · participle present presignifying · participle past presignified · past presignified

  1. transitiveTo intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

    That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.

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

Origin

  1. Latinpraesignificare
  2. Englishpresignify

From Latin praesignificare, from prae (“before”) + significare (“to signify”).

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Chicago

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