(v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To utter predictions.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1967, I indicated that the number of lawsuits involving malformed infants seemed to be increasing, not realizing that the increase was foretelling an epidemic.
(2) But if they do foretell of a golden child who will one day preside over a truly clean Fifa, then I can only think this saviour has yet to be even born.
(3) Changes occurring in both countries foretell a future wherein our health care systems may look very much alike.
(4) For if nothing burnishes authority like foretelling the future, nothing breaks the spell of command like responding to changing facts with denial.
(5) But, in office, Trump has proved to be a great deal friendlier to the titans of Wall Street and their interests than he suggested he would be as a candidate, although a close reading of his speeches foretells some of what is now happening.
(6) Bioclimatogrammes have been worked out for the various regions of the country to foretell the periods during which the microclimatic conditions in them favour the development of the preparasitic forms of gastrointestinal nematodes of sheep in the environment.
(7) And while national eyes are focused on what the byelection, triggered by the sudden death of the longtime MP Don Randall , will bode for the future of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, or foretell for the next general election, voters in the semi-rural electorate are much more parochial.
(8) However, if she declines our invitation, then perhaps her greatest gift is the ability to foretell her own failure.
(9) Its outcome is difficult to foretell, as the usual criteria for malignancy are unreliable in this neoplasm.
(10) Oral ulcerations have been said to foretell a severe systemic disease flare and the proposal that oral ulcers represent a mucosal vasculitis has been suggested to explain this hypothesis.
(11) Hypereosinophilia may foretell a more serious underlying condition such as bile duct carcinoma in some patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.
(12) Current experience indicates that negative biopsy after such combined therapy may be 85 per cent reliable in foretelling lesion outcome.
(13) Reward-related activity in area 7a probably results from an integration of the visual and limbic inputs to this region, such that visual information which foretells behaviourally important events is emphasized.
(14) The evidence that the mast cell can participate in each form of immunologic reaction--immediate, immune complex, and delayed- as a primary or secondary effector cell and the diversity of its products foretell an evolving recognition of its role in host defense and tissue injury.
(15) At the same time, foreign firms are becoming more active, foretelling greater competition in the United States for both market share and research resources.
(16) The results of this survey foretell a significant deficit of pathologists in community hospital and private laboratory practice within the next five years.
(17) The case may foretell increasing problems with protozoan infections in AIDS as the epidemic spreads to areas with endemic protozoan diseases.
(18) This loss of one cell-specific marker and gain of another is termed the "antigenic shift" phenomenon and appeared to foretell the emergence of a true second phenotype (the same in each of these cases, which could be termed "dedifferentiated" sarcomas).
(19) However, it is impossible to foretell simply from past menstrual history whether a woman will develop amenorrhea after oral contraceptive therapy.
(20) In conclusion, we look into the crystal ball to foretell the future on a retrospective basis.
Forewarn
Definition:
(v. t.) To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Appropriate management will then include the doctor taking time to explain the condition and its associated uncertainties, to discuss the treatment options and to forewarn about possible side-effects.
(2) This examination leads to eliminate those reproaches because the consumer knows to which he is exposed, being forewarned: -when he is using mineral water at the cure-resort, by the thermal consultant who is watching over him, -when he is using one or the other of the conditioned waters, -either by the medical practictioner, who should give him the contre-indicates; -either by indicating on the label, if not the contre-indicates (like we would hope that they figure on), at least the composition (which now figures within the EEC).
(3) The experiment utilized a 2 (high vs. low room density) X 2 (forewarning of a crowded room vs. no forewarning) X 2 (simple vs. complex task) design to examine the effects of anticipation of crowding on task performance.
(4) Such patients should be forewarned and should be equipped by their doctors with a covering letter giving full details of their medical condition and its treatment.
(5) Clinicians were not forewarned that the study was being undertaken.
(6) Dentists should examine the various aspects of communication which will forewarn them of potentially difficult clinical situations, so that they can minimize the patient's anxiety and their own stress.
(7) Since routine quality control testing had not forewarned us of this gross lack of radiochemical purity, Tc-99m disofenin kits were subjected to a variety of insults to elucidate the mechanisms of quality control failure.
(8) The difficulty in reaching a correct pre-operative diagnosis can lead to an unusual approach to nephrectomy, of which the surgeon should be forewarned.
(9) ), even with forewarning of an environmental orientation test.
(10) Whether or not this method would have forewarned of a serious decrement in crewmen's health cannot be known because, in fact, they were healthy and remain healthy.
(11) It said much for how stretched Ireland’s defence had become that Walters was the nearest Irish player to a striker about whom the visitors could not have been more forewarned.
(12) Not that being forewarned aided the Liverpool goalkeeper.
(13) Campaigning in Iowa yesterday, Romney added a new line to his stump speech, saying that Obama's slogan 'Forward' should be renamed 'Forewarned', that a second term would look much like the first.
(14) The Mail & Guardian described Maharaj's intervention as a "chilling forewarning of what may happen if the protection of state information bill is adopted in its current form."
(15) When subjects were forewarned as to the size of the disk to look for (precued trials), signal detection improved (d' increased) for all three groups, and 5-year-olds improved the most.
(16) Patients whose ears are included in the field of radiation may have to be forewarned to expect a loss in their acuity of hearing, especially those whose professional life may depend on it.
(17) Mental and emotional load consisting of several psychological tests was used in 35 patients with ischemic heart disease to disclose hazardous and latent forms of disorders of cardiac rhythm as possible forewarning of sudden death and to study the role of the psychological factor and stress situation in their origin.
(18) The present experiment was aimed at whether subjects, performing a forewarned simple reaction time (RT) task, do voluntarily tense agonist and antagonist muscles during the foreperiod; if so, would such muscle tension co-vary with CNV amplitude or RT?
(19) The carrier state of a certain number of genetic disorders can now be detected, so that even before the birth of their first child, a family can be forewarned that they are at increased risk.
(20) Flowers can be ordered in, though guests are forewarned not to put them on the marbles or any other exhibits.