Word Meanings - PRESIGNIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of signifying or showing beforehand.

Related words: (words related to PRESIGNIFICATION)

• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• SHOW
  view; akin to OS. scaw, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk, Icel. sko, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on 1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in
• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• 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,
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• SHOWERINESS
  Quality of being showery.
• SHOWINESS
  The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
• SHOWERFUL
  Full of showers. Tennyson.
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• FORESIGNIFY
  To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
• PRESHOW
  To foreshow.
• PRESIGNIFY
  To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
• ADSIGNIFY
  To denote additionally. Tooke.