preominate

English

Etymology

From pre +‎ ominate.

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.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     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.

Anagrams

• permeation