Word Meanings - PRENUNCIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Announcing beforehand; presaging. Blount.
Related words: (words related to PRENUNCIOUS)
- PRESAGIOUS
Foreboding; ominous. - PRESAGE
1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught - PRESAGEMENT
1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton. - ANNOUNCE
+ nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See 1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. - PRESAGEFUL
Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson. - BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation, - ANNOUNCEMENT
The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication. - ANNOUNCER
One who announces. - PRESAGER
One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak. - PREANNOUNCE
To announce beforehand. Coleridge.