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The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.

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

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. Bacon.

ot conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place.

To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent. [Obs.] Philips.

Going before; preceding; hence, preventive. "Prevenient grace descending." Milton.

Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.

A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to Ant: metachronism.

That which prognosticates; 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.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.

To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented. Abp. Bramhall.

ecified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; -- frequently called a note of hand. Kent. Byles. Story.

To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state. Shak. Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky. Pope. For being not propp'd by ancestry. Shak. I prop myself upon those few suppor…

To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7.

One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

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.

To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy. [R.] "Prophetizing dreams." Daniel.