(n.) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
(n.) A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
(v. t.) To usher in; to be a harbinger of.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, sepsis-associated CNS dysfunction appears to be as important a harbinger of excess mortality as renal or pulmonary dysfunction in septic patients.
(2) A strong hi-tech presence was a harbinger of better health; a dependence on older manufacturing industries was associated with poorer health.
(3) "May the supreme court’s move be a harbinger of other, more responsible, decisions to come."
(4) It's not obvious what this harbinger of doom is supposed to be.
(5) Acquired isolated oculomotor palsies in some cases are not necessarily a harbinger of serious disease.
(6) Lastly, the occurrence of coagulase-negative staphylococcal peritonitis is a harbinger of future episodes of peritonitis caused by a variety of organisms.
(7) In the former illness, reduced blink rate signifies a worsening of the illness and a significant increase in blink rate in patients treated with dopamine agonist may be a harbinger of agonist-induced dyskinesia.
(8) We feel this is a harbinger of what could come, for what it indicates in terms of what the future holds."
(9) Allende's election three years before at the head of a socialist-communist coalition had a significance far beyond Chile itself, being widely seen as the harbinger of similar projects in countries such as France and Italy, as well as the beginning of a "second Cuba" in Latin America itself.
(10) Isis sees itself as a harbinger of the end of times.
(11) EL: The first psychiatrist I saw subscribed very much to the same view as my friend and the GP – that my voice (and bear in mind, it's still only a single voice at this time) was a sinister harbinger of something much more serious.
(12) It presents to the anesthesiologist the immediate problem of airway management but it also must be recognized by the physician as a harbinger of malignant hyperthermia.
(13) "Apple's new Siri Assistant, unique to the new 4S, is a powerful harbinger of the future use of mobile devices – not just the power of voice but, more importantly, the ability to contextualise a statement or request.
(14) Proteinuria is the clinical hallmark of diabetic nephropathy and the harbinger of progressive renal disease.
(15) In the depressed elderly, characteristic EEG changes occur that may help distinguish major depression from pseudodementia; however, it should be considered that pseudodementia may be a harbinger of primary dementia.
(16) Mesangial cell proliferation, which is a harbinger of glomerulosclerosis, occurs in both immune and nonimmune glomerulopathies.
(17) BP BP was the harbinger of privatisations when James Callaghan's Labour government parcelled off a chunk of the oil giant in the 1970s.
(18) Hezbollah's lead role in the battle for Qusair is widely seen as a harbinger of a broader role for the Lebanese Shia militia in Syria, having instilled momentum into a regime military that had struggled to gain ground in many parts of the country since last summer.
(19) Significant spontaneous gross hematuria, gastrointestinal bleeding or epistaxis appear to represent harbingers of intracranial hemorrhage and constitute indications for emergency splenectomy.
(20) "Perhaps the way the job is defined needs to change, and this is the harbinger of bigger changes to come."
Prefiguration
Definition:
(n.) The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.
Example Sentences:
(1) We give also a short description of risks caused by chemical agents in agricolture (with hygienic implications concerning consumers also) prefiguring, in conclusion, some hypoteses for the substitution of the chemical mean with alternative techniques and methods.
(2) If so, the fall in private vehicles in London recently recorded in the census could soon prefigure a wider decline from "peak car" use.
(3) The trading room tickers and the panicked trilby-topped brokers commemorated in our wallchart today prefigured four years of ubiquitous hardship, enforced idleness and mass displacement.
(4) Although Hartley's understanding of the central nervous system has long been superseded, his general ideas prefigure some aspects of contemporary neurophysiology and philosophy of mind and thus provide a further reason for rescuing his vibrationism from oblivion.
(5) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
(6) The book's brutal last line – "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood" – has been seen by some to prefigure war.
(7) No variants appearing to prefigure involution were identified either in term or in prolonged placentas.
(8) Spain's stance was prefigured in a secret document revealed by the Guardian this year, which showed that the previous Spanish government was planning to scupper the proposed ban.
(9) This prefigures a consideration of the nature of the concept of order in medical anthropology, science, and medicine.
(10) The onset of clinical immunodeficiency disease is prefigured by the replication of the FeLV-FAIDS variant virus in bone marrow and other tissues.
(11) The observations are novel in documenting the extent and precision to which a peripheral nerve pathway is prefigured by a contiguous assemblage of nonneuronal cells.
(12) Prefiguring attitudes now associated with John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman, Robinson succeeded in breaking through what he called the "sonorous drivel" of politicians, of whom he once said: "It's impossible to make the bastards reply to a straight question."
(13) The high rates of HIV infection in these communities (5 to 20 percent of adults aged 25 to 45) and their linkage to widespread drug use prefigure the development of endemic levels in several population subgroups, with substantial risk of heterosexual spread.
(14) Palin’s emergence at the junction of politics, celebrity and conservative populism prefigured the rise of Trump.
(15) The new pope embarks on a programme of reform, but Hadrian's one-year reign comes to an end when he is assassinated by a pope-hating Scot, prefiguring the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II .
(16) Prevention presently tends to be seen as a medical specialty among others and perhaps prefigures a new form of medicine, the object of which would be the societal body more than the body of the sick individual.
(17) 50's triggered, EU27 will engage to safeguard its interests October 2, 2016 May’s position was prefigured by remarks from the trade secretary, Liam Fox , who used a major speech to hail Britain’s transition to a fully independent member of the World Trade Organisation after it leaves the EU as a “golden opportunity” for the UK to trade with the rest of the world.
(18) Many of these early stories prefigured his later work, with lonely young soldiers, girls with "lovely, awkward" smiles, and children waiting for post that never comes.
(19) Morris offered his own site, Vote.com, as a prefiguration of an emerging online, participatory culture.
(20) The Chinese authorities' historical tendency to unleash, then rein in, such demonstrations of anti-Japanese sentiment is, fittingly, prefigured in Orwell's prose as well: after all, such hate "could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp" – and could even be directed toward China's politburo itself.