Word!!!
the worthless word for the day is: ominate
[fr. L ominari, to prognosticate; cf. omen]
archaic trans.
1) to prophesy from signs and omens: auger
2) to be a portent or omen of obs. intrans.
1) to utter prophecies or forebodings
2) to serve as a prophecy
"...yet did the king often bewray of him an unquiet conceit, often did he ominate evil upon him."
- The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and
Tracts... found in the late Earl of Oxford's Library (ca. 1744)
"I had no vultures to omenate wars and conquests."
- John Galt, Annals of the Parish (1827)
"Ominate more favourably, I beg of you," cried Brutus.--"As favourably as you please," said I, "and
that not so much upon my own account, as your's."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero's Brutus
Or History of Famous Orators
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I give you signs and portents of things to come...
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[fr. L ominari, to prognosticate; cf. omen]
archaic trans.
1) to prophesy from signs and omens: auger
2) to be a portent or omen of obs. intrans.
1) to utter prophecies or forebodings
2) to serve as a prophecy
"...yet did the king often bewray of him an unquiet conceit, often did he ominate evil upon him."
- The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and
Tracts... found in the late Earl of Oxford's Library (ca. 1744)
"I had no vultures to omenate wars and conquests."
- John Galt, Annals of the Parish (1827)
"Ominate more favourably, I beg of you," cried Brutus.--"As favourably as you please," said I, "and
that not so much upon my own account, as your's."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero's Brutus
Or History of Famous Orators
--- you want themes?
I give you signs and portents of things to come...
http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd