† preˈnunciate, -nuntiate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. prænuntiāre: see prec.]
trans. To announce beforehand; to foretell; to predict.
| 1623 Cockeram, Prenunciate, to foreshew. a 1636 C. Fitzgeffrey Compassion Captives Ded. Ep. (1637) 2, I come..not as the sea-porpesses to prenuntiate a storme, but..to procure a calme. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 94 If the..conjunctions of the stars be sufficient to prognosticate and prenuntiate all manner of mutations. |
So
† prenunciˈation, announcement beforehand, foretelling, prediction, prognostication;
† preˈnunciative a.,
† preˈnuncious a. (
rare—0), announcing beforehand, presaging;
preˈnuntiate nonce-wd., used to render L.
prænuntius masc.,
prænuntia fem., foreteller, harbinger.
| 1623 Cockeram ii, Fore-shewing..*prenunciation. a 1626 W. Sclater Exp. 4th ch. Rom. (1650) 152 Propheticall prenunciations all verified by events. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 67 To cause a falsehood in the pronuntiation, prenuntiation, or prediction. |
| 1555 Bonner Necess. Doctr. L iv, The fyrste Sacramentes..were *Prenuncyatyue of Chryst to come. 1843 G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 47 Typical and prenunciative of the one efficacious piacular devotement of the Lamb of God. |
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., *Prenuncious,..the first brings tidings, that goes afore and tells news. |
| 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Fasti ii. 825 But now the bird *prenuntiate of day [L. lucis praenuntius ales] Proclaims the morning. Ibid. vi. 244 The herald priest, with javelin in hand, Prenuntiate of warfare [L. belli praenuntia]. |