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† preˈnunciate, -nuntiate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. prænuntiāre: see prec.]
trans. To announce beforehand; to foretell; to predict.
1623Cockeram, Prenunciate, to foreshew. a1636C. Fitzgeffrey Compassion Captives Ded. Ep. (1637) 2, I come..not as the sea-porpesses to prenuntiate a storme, but..to procure a calme. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 94 If the..conjunctions of the stars be sufficient to prognosticate and prenuntiate all manner of mutations.
So † prenunciˈation, announcement beforehand, foretelling, prediction, prognostication; † preˈnunciative a., † preˈnuncious a. (rare—0), announcing beforehand, presaging; preˈnuntiate nonce-wd., used to render L. prænuntius masc., prænuntia fem., foreteller, harbinger.
1623Cockeram ii, Fore-shewing..*prenunciation. a1626W. Sclater Exp. 4th ch. Rom. (1650) 152 Propheticall prenunciations all verified by events. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 67 To cause a falsehood in the pronuntiation, prenuntiation, or prediction.
1555Bonner Necess. Doctr. L iv, The fyrste Sacramentes..were *Prenuncyatyue of Chryst to come. 1843G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 47 Typical and prenunciative of the one efficacious piacular devotement of the Lamb of God.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Prenuncious,..the first brings tidings, that goes afore and tells news.
1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti ii. 825 But now the bird *prenuntiate of day [L. lucis praenuntius ales] Proclaims the morning. Ibid. vi. 244 The herald priest, with javelin in hand, Prenuntiate of warfare [L. belli praenuntia]. |