Foretell

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretold}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Foretelling}.]
     To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to
     foreshow.
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           Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope.
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           Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
           of his character.                        --C.
                                                    Middleton.
  
     Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i.
     To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foretell
       v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: {announce}, {annunciate}, {harbinger},
             {herald}]
       2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
          of an election" [syn: {predict}, {prognosticate}, {call},
          {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}]
       3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
           {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage},
           {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {prefigure}, {forecast},
           {predict}]
       [also: {foretold}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretell":
     adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await,
     be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
     call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare,
     disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
     draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee,
     foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess,
     hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom,
     make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan,
     plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim,
     prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms,
     read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate,
     tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn