Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Predicting the future
n
(obsolete) A forerunner; a precursor.
v
To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events; to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable outcome.
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To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
n
The practice of augury.
n
(obsolete) An augur.
adj
Relating to augurs or to augury.
v
Alternative form of augurize [To predict or foretell; to augur.]
n
The act of foretelling; prophecy.
n
(obsolete) An augur.
v
To predict or foretell; to augur.
adj
(obsolete) Full of augury; foreboding.
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(historical) The office (or period of office) of an augur in ancient Rome.
n
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
v
(transitive) To foreshow; to foretoken.
adj
Of or belonging to auspices or omens
n
An omen or a sign.
v
(transitive) To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
n
That which betokens.
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Obsolete form of bode. [(transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.]
n
An omen; a foreshadowing.
n
(obsolete) An omen or portent.
v
(rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
v
To advise or counsel beforehand.
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To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
n
(archaic) an oracle; one who tells the future.
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To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
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(transitive) To choose ahead of time; preelect; preselect.
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(very rare) One who forecries or makes announcements; a herald.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To judge, form a judgement of, or declare beforehand; foretell; forecast; presage.
v
(transitive) To feel or perceive beforehand or in advance; to have a presentiment of.
n
(archaic, rare) One who or that which goes before; a forerunner; a harbinger; a predecessor.
n
A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.
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One who foreknows.
v
To forewarn, premonish.
n
Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.
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One who foreordains.
n
A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.
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(law, rare) A sentence or condemnation in advance.
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One who or that which foreshadows.
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(archaic) Alternative form of foreshower [One who predicts.]
n
One who spurs or rides ahead; a harbinger.
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(UK, law, historical) A service paid by foresters to the king.
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(transitive, intransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
n
One who forewarns.
n
An advance warning; an omen.
v
To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
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(idiomatic) Harbingers of doom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.
n
(obsolete) A harbinger.
v
(rare, neologism) To be a harbinger; to presage.
v
(transitive) To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.
v
(formal, rare) To predict; to prophesy.
n
A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
adj
(archaic) That inaugurates
n
The thing intimated.
v
To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
n
An omen or harbinger.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.
v
To predestine.
v
(transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of.
n
One who or that which portends.
n
(archaic) An omen.
n
portent; omen
v
To admonish in advance.
v
(transitive) To subject (a material) to extreme conditions to simulate the effects of age.
n
One who makes a preannouncement.
v
To display or have precognition; to have (paranormal) knowledge of a future event before it occurs.
n
Alternative form of preconization [A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.]
v
Alternative form of preconize [To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.]
n
A publishing by proclamation; a public proclamation.
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Obsolete form of precursor. [That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.]
n
(archaic) A prediction, a prognostication.
n
That which precurses: a forerunner, predecessor, or indicator of approaching events.
n
A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
adj
(archaic) Predestined, preordained.
n
That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.
n
One who, or that which, takes hold; a grasping limb etc.
v
To advocate.
n
One who premeditates.
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(obsolete, transitive) To warn of something in advance.
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(archaic) Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.
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One who, or that which, gives premonition.
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(obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
n
One who prequalifies.
v
(transitive) To predict or foretell something.
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(evolutionary theory) The preference for a mate found attractive by other members of one's sex.
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To predict.
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One who preëmpts.
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(medicine) To make a prognosis.
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(transitive) To presage, betoken.
v
Obsolete spelling of represent [(transitive) To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.]
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(transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
n
(obsolete) Augury; prognostication.
v
(intransitive) To foretell the future; make predictions.
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(transitive, intransitive, chiefly formal) To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
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(obsolete) One who goes ahead to reconnoitre; a scout.
n
(idiomatic) An ominous warning; a prediction of bad luck.

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