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presignify

presignify verb: to intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.

Verb

presignify (third-person singular simple present presignifies, present participle presignifying, simple past and past participle presignified)

  1. (transitive) To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
    • That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23

Forms of presignify

third-person singular presentpresignifies
present participlepresignifying
past participlepresignified
pastpresignified

Origin of presignify

From Latin praesignificare, from prae (“before”) + significare (“to signify”).

Questions about presignify

What does presignify mean?
Presignify means to intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
What part of speech is presignify?
Presignify is a verb.
What is the past tense of presignify?
The past tense of presignify is presignified.

Words near presignify in the dictionary

  1. presigned
  2. presignification
  3. presignifications
  4. presignified
  5. presignifies
  6. presignify
  7. presignifying
  8. presigning
  9. presigns
  10. presiliconize
  11. presiliconized

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