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to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.

ubsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate. [They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the allies. Swift.

s of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.

The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.

Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.

To foretell.

To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.] Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test.

To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

To foretell; to predict. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.

To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in. Shak.

ct of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment.