FORETELL, FORETELLING
NOUNS
► ABODANCE a foretelling, prefiguring, portending, omen → c1630 obs.
► ABODEMENT a foreboding, presage, or omen → 1593 obs.
► HARIOLATION a foretelling or soothsaying → 1656 obs.
VERBS
► ABODE to presage, prognosticate, be ominous of → 1593 obs.
► BEFORE-SAY to predict, to foretell → 1382 obs.
► BODE to foretell; to foreshadow or forbode → 1623 obs.
► FARSEE to foretell the future → 1944 Amer. dial.
► PRETEND to foretell, to portend → 1425 obs.
► READ to predict, to foretell → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SOOTHSAY vb. to make predictions, to foretell future events; to predict, prophesy → 1606
► VATICINATE to speak as a prophet or seer; to utter predictions; to foretell events → 1623
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