foretoken

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foretoken - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Foretoken \Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See Token.]
     Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney.
     [1913 Webster]

  Foretoken \Fore*to"ken\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretokened; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Foretokening.] [AS. foret[=a]cnian; fore +
     t[=a]cnian.]
     To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
                                                    --Daniel.

foretoken - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  foretoken
      n 1: an event that is experienced as indicating important things
           to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from
           God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]

foretoken - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretoken":
     adumbration, augur, augury, auspice, badge, betoken, betokening,
     betokenment, bode, boding, divine, forebode, forerunner,
     foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foretokening,
     forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indicant, indicate,
     indication, inkling, intimation, mark, mean, note, omen, ostent,
     point to, portend, portent, precursor, prefiguration, prefigure,
     preindicate, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign,
     premonitory symptom, presage, presign, presignal, presignify,
     presignifying, pretypify, prognostic, prognostication, promise,
     shadow, sign, signify, soothsay, spell, suggestion, symptom, token,
     tokening, type, typify, warning