Preconize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
"The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in their midst."
Example
More examples"The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in their midst."
Etymology
From Latin praecō (“herald”) + -ize or Latin praecōnizō.
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