pretell
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pretell (third-person singular simple present pretells, present participle pretelling, simple past and past participle pretold)
- To predict.
- 1983, David A. White, The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics:
- The Roman historian Tacitus does not simply tell what has happened in a past long past so that it will be preserved for the present and into an endless future; rather, he pretells what has happened, in effect transposing history (necessarily of the past) into prediction (necessarily of the future).