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ich portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.

A prognostic; an omen. [Obs.] Gower.

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton.

Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.

icates; a sign by which 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.

A diviner by spirits. "[Manasses] observed omens, and appointed pythons." 4 Kings xxi. 6 (Douay version).

ble event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity; a prodigy; an omen.

Omen; portent. Having God turn the same to good soothsay. Spenser.

irect agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.

Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious. Haunt me not with that unlucky face. Dryden.