Foretoken \Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See Token.]
Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Foretoken \Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretokened; p.
pr. & vb. n. Foretokening.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore +
t[=a]cnian.]
To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
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Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
--Daniel.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
foretoken
n : an event that is experienced as indicating important things
to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
God" [syn: augury, sign, preindication]
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretoken":
adumbration, augur, augury, auspice, badge, betoken, betokening,
betokenment, bode, boding, divine, forebode, forerunner,
foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foretokening,
forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indicant, indicate,
indication, inkling, intimation, mark, mean, note, omen, ostent,
point to, portend, portent, precursor, prefiguration, prefigure,
preindicate, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign,
premonitory symptom, presage, presign, presignal, presignify,
presignifying, pretypify, prognostic, prognostication, promise,
shadow, sign, signify, soothsay, spell, suggestion, symptom, token,
tokening, type, typify, warning
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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