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Webster 1913 Edition
Preominate
Pre-om′i-nate
,Verb.
T.
To ominate beforehand; to portend.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Preominate
PREOM'INATE
,Verb.
T.
To prognosticate; to gather from omens any future event.
Definition 2024
preominate
preominate
English
Verb
preominate (third-person singular simple present preominates, present participle preominating, simple past and past participle preominated)
- (obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
- (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.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23: