To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.
To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope.
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