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The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. But wise through time, and narrative with age. Pope.

One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.

To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning. "I have outtold the clock." Beau. & Fl.

vening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight. I had been telling her all that happened overnight. Dickens.

The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy. Ascham. Cowper.

The art telling fortunes by inspection of the features. [Obs.] Bale.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

hich a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import. Macaulay.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling. He hearkens after prophecies and dreams. Shak. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man. 2. Pet. i. 21.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.

A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration. Addison.

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon.

is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in mean…

The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

Telling tales officiously.

Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.