preominate

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To feel foreboding about; to prophesy
To be a portent or omen of

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.

{v} to get or have first possession
To ominate beforehand; to portend
preominate
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