foretokenn.
/ˈfɔːˌtəʊk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌtoʊkən/ A premonitory token; a prognostic.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]
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c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xl. §2 Hit sie foretacn ecra goda.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 And wes iseȝen godes fortacne uppon ane dune.
a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxvii. 43 He set..his for-taknes in felde of Than.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2994 Ðis Fortoken godes gastes is.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 137 To him a foretokne [MS. aforetokne] he sende.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 24 Ane gret portent and foretaiking of ignorance.
1580 Order Prayer in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 571 We find not that any such foretoken happened against the coming of this earthquake.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 676 There are in Swine many presages and foretokens of foule weather.
1713 R. Nelson Life Bp. Bull (1714) lv. 304 A foretoken of his future Incarnation.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 340 The foretoken has always been found to be true.
1858 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church (new ed.) IX. ii. 568 The foretokens of a thoroughly antichristian tendency.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
foretokenv.
/(ˌ)fɔːˈtəʊk(ə)n/, U.S. /fɔrˈtoʊkən/ transitive. To be a foretoken of; to indicate or betoken beforehand.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)]
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1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xv. viii. 232 There hapned..a dolefull chance, but yet..foretokening good luck.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 142 The Northern [waterfall] sounding Clear and Loud, foretokeneth Fair Weather.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 300 The evidence..foretokening that..the graces propounded to us in Christ are what he needs.
1867 R. Palmer Life P. Howard 150 Mutterings..which..foretokened the greatest evils.
Derivatives
foreˈtokening n.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun]
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ostentation1607
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foreshadowing1847
a1300 E.E. Psalter lxx[i]. 7 Made am I als for-takeninge [L. tanquam prodigium] Unto mani.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. 245 The Dictatour..hath given a good foretokening and presage of a consull Commoner.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1876) II. i. vii. 128 Such general foretokenings are borne out..in the Vandalic conquest of Africa.
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