prefigure

prefigure
    v 1: imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had
         prefigured"
    2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
       {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage},
       {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure},
       {forecast}, {predict}]
    

Prefigure \Pre*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Prefigured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prefiguring}.] [F.
   pr['e]figurer, or L. praefigurare, praefiguratum; prae before
   + figurare to figure. See {Figure}, and cf. {Prefigurate}.]
   To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and
   similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types
   prefigured." --South.
   [1913 Webster]
    

100 Moby Thesaurus words for "prefigure":
      adumbrate, assume, augur, be afraid, believe, betoken, body forth,
      cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, conceive, conclude, consider,
      daresay, deduce, deem, demonstrate, divine, dope, dope out,
      dowse for water, dream, embody, exemplify, expect, fancy, feel,
      figure, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell,
      foretoken, fortune-tell, gather, grant, guess, hariolate, hint,
      illustrate, image, imagine, impersonate, incarnate, indicate,
      infer, let, let be, make a prediction, make a prognosis,
      make a prophecy, mean, mirror, opine, personate, personify,
      point to, predict, preindicate, presage, presign, presignal,
      presignify, presume, presuppose, presurmise, pretypify,
      prognosticate, project, prophesy, provisionally accept, read palms,
      read tea leaves, read the future, realize, reckon, reflect, repute,
      say, shadow, shadow forth, signify, soothsay, speculate, spell,
      suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted,
      take it, take to be, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, token,
      typify, understand, vaticinate