presignify

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. (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.