presignify

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Etymology edit

From Latin praesignificare, from prae (“before”) + significare (“to signify”).

Verb edit

presignify (third-person singular simple present presignifies, present participle presignifying, simple past and past participle presignified)

(transitive) To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
  That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.