preominate

verb — 2 senses

verb

Etymology From pre- + ominate.

Obsolete, Rare To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.

Obsolete, Rare To be a portent or omen of.

Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

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