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Liittyvät sanat: foreshow, portend, presage

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To signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
1557: w:Robert Recorde|Robert Recorde, w:The Whetstone of Witte|The whetstone of witte, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike : containyng the xtraction of Rootes : The Cossike practise, with the rule of Equation : and the workes of Surde Nombers.http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VeARAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Whetstone+of+Witte%22+betokeneth&dq=%22The+Whetstone+of+Witte%22+betokeneth&ei=8qV7SfvTLaSayATQwvHtCQ&pgis=1 ʀ, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4bZPHQAACAAJ&dq=betokeneth&ei=d6N7SafwL5P2Mdas2JYE page unknown (Ihon Kyngstone)

To foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
1853: w:Virgil Virgil, Charles Anthon, LL.D. tr., w:Aeneid Æneïd of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Clavis: And an Historical, Geographical, and Mythological Index, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KBUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA474&dq=betokenest&ei=06h7SbjkEaOOyQTsvsG6Ag page 474 (Harper & Brothers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, New York)

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