1. (v. t.) To foretell; to portend; to predict a calamity\.

2. (v. t.) 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.

3. (v. i.) To foretell; to presage; to augur.

4. (n.) Prognostication; presage.

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