foretoken
/fɔːˈtəʊk(ə)n
/verb [with object] literary
Be a sign of (a future event): a shiver in the night air foretokening December...
- Actually this foretokened that the formal independence of the republic would also be nullified.
- The Next Big Things on the Internet aren't usually foretokened by business models or white papers, said Popkin.
- He is said to have eaten a toad as a child, an act foretokening a martial destiny.
Origin
Old English foretācn (noun: see fore-, token).
Rhymes
- morphogen
- morphogenesis
- morphogenetic
- morphogenetically
- morphogenetic field
- morphogenic
- morphogeny
- morphographemic
- morphographic
- morphographical
- morphography
- morpholexical
- morpholine
- morphologic
- morphological
- morphological axis
- morphologically
- morphologist
- morphologization
- morphologize
- morphology
- morphometric
- morphometrical
- morphometrically
- morphometrics