資料來源 : pyDict
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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Foretoken \Fore"to`ken\, n. [AS. foret[=a]cen. See {Token}.]
Prognostic; previous omen. --Sir P. Sidney.
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.
Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.
--Daniel.
資料來源 : WordNet®
foretoken
n : 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}, {preindication}]