Definition of "foreshow" [fore•show]

• To show in advance; prefigure. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To foreshow these is not prophecy, but prognostication."
• "“And did the candle prognosticate, I mean foreshow his death?”"
• "Ruby looked about at the sky for any marks of cloud or air or light that might foreshow the weather, and what they told was snow and gathering cold."