foretell

Etymology

c. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell.

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
    Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character. 1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero
  2. (transitive) To tell (a person) of the future.
    […] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of. 1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History

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