(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.
Oracular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
(a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly not for their oracular genius – the agencies have as much foresight as Mr Magoo.
(2) In October 2007, when MGMT arrived with their debut album, Oracular Spectacular , they made enough of an impact to sell half a million copies in the UK alone.
(3) It was something utterly new in the world, this Yankee lit-lingo - scriptural, oracular, densely and passionately wrought.