predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; “Call the outcome of an election”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
forebode (third-person singular simple present forebodes, present participle foreboding, simple past and past participle foreboded)
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
• (to portend or foretell): foretell, portend, predict
forebode
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
Source: Wiktionary
Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] Etym: [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
1. To foretell.
2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.
Syn.
– To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
Fore*bode", v. i.
Definition: To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.
Fore*bode", n.
Definition: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
