Presignify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage. transitive

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

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augurbetokendivineforetokenhintindicate

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

Etymology

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

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