To bode or announce beforehand; prognosticate; presage, especially something unfortunate or undesirable: as, the public temper forebodes war; the clouds forebode rain.To foresee; be prescient of; feel a secret premonition of, especially of something evil.Synonyms Predict, Presage, etc. (see foretell); to augur, portend, betoken, foreshadow, be ominous of.To prophesy; presage.n. Presage; prognostication.