foretoken Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
    preindication; augury; sign.
    • he hoped it was an augury
    • it was a sign from God

WordNet

Fore"to`ken noun
Etymology
AS. foretacen. See Token.
Definitions
  1. Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.
Fore*to"ken transitive verb
Etymology
AS. foretacnian; fore + tacnian.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Foretokened ; present participle & verbal noun Foretokening
Definitions
  1. To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate.
    Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

Webster 1913