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Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition;<br />

• (conveyer)- a person or thing that conveys; The working of this spiral as<br />

a conveyer is simply magical. — Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March<br />

26, 1887;<br />

divine {ecclesiastic = cleric}<br />

• (ecclesiastic)- a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders,<br />

( ); His voice had the self-satisfied meekness of the<br />

successful ecclesiastic, his bearing suggested rectitude tempered by desire to<br />

avoid observation. — John Ingerfield and Other Stories;<br />

• (cleric)- a member of the clergy; Caramon gave a great, bellowing roar and<br />

sprang at Verminaard, but the cleric was prepared. — Dragons of Autumn<br />

Twilight;<br />

auspicate {betoken = indicate = signal}<br />

• (betoken)- to give evidence of; indicate, ( ); The name, the<br />

accompaniments, and the child's expression betoken a rare delicacy of<br />

conception. — The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863;<br />

• to be or give a token or sign of; portend,( );<br />

• (indicate)- to serve as a sign, symptom, or token of; signify; Their journey<br />

to Italy had been undertaken chiefly for the sake of Lady Trevelyan's health,<br />

as the following extractsindicate: — The Life of John Ruskin;<br />

• (signal)- an indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a<br />

means of communication; He gave the three piercing whistles that the<br />

hominid had learned to recognize as his signal, and waited. — The Lost<br />

Worlds of 2001;<br />

presentiment = preindication = augury = boding = foreboding = premonition =<br />

portent = prognosis = prediction : prescience = prevision<br />

• (presentiment)- a feeling or impression that something is about to happen,<br />

esp. something evil; foreboding, ( ,<br />

, , ); It was a fear which may be described as<br />

a presentiment of jealousy. — The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II);<br />

• (preindication)- to indicate in advance; presage; On the upper step Juliet<br />

was standing, not without fear, gazing into the gulf, which was yet far deeper<br />

than she imagined, when, without the smallest preindication, the lower step<br />

suddenly sank. — Paul Faber, Surgeon;<br />

• (augury)- the art or practice of an augur; divination;<br />

• an omen, token, or indication; I hoped the augury was a true one, but there<br />

were times when I doubted. — A Virginia Scout;<br />

• (premonition)- a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event;<br />

presentiment, ( , ); Painlessly and

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