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third-person singular simple present foretells, present participle foretelling, simple past and past participle foretold
(transitive, intransitive) To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy. quotations examples
Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold.
1725–1726, Homer, “Book 2”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot
Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.
1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero
(transitive) To tell (a person) of the future. quotations examples
[…] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History