Noun

(auguries)

A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.

(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.

* (Edgar Allan Poe)

In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.

An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

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Noun

(en noun)

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery.

The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.

* Thodey

The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.

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(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.

(rhetoric) Prolepsis.

(music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.

(obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds.