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preominate

preominate verb: to feel foreboding about; to prophesy.

Verb

preominate (third-person singular simple present preominates, present participle preominating, simple past and past participle preominated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
  2. (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

Forms of preominate

third-person singular presentpreominates
present participlepreominating
past participlepreominated
pastpreominated

Origin of preominate

From pre- + ominate.

Questions about preominate

What does preominate mean?
Preominate means to feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
What part of speech is preominate?
Preominate is a verb.
What is the past tense of preominate?
The past tense of preominate is preominated.

Words near preominate in the dictionary

  1. preoedipal
  2. preofficial
  3. Preolenna
  4. preoligodendrocyte
  5. preoligodendrocytes
  6. preominate
  7. preon
  8. preonic
  9. preons
  10. preonset
  11. preontological

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