augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
(noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; “he hoped it was an augury”; “it was a sign from God”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
foretoken (plural foretokens)
A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.
foretoken (third-person singular simple present foretokens, present participle foretokening, simple past and past participle foretokened)
(transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.
Source: Wiktionary
Fore"to`ken, n. Etym: [AS. foretacen. See Token.]
Definition: Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.
Fore*to"ken, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretokened; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretokening.] Etym: [AS. foretacnian; fore + tacnian.]
Definition: To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2024
(adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; “saving faith”; “redemptive (or redeeming) love”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
