Signify vs Foreread - What's the difference?
signify | foreread |
To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift)
To mean; to betoken.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
To signify beforehand; predict.
*1904 , Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34 :
*1907 , Harper's magazine: Volume 114:
To read beforehand or ahead of time.
*1989 , Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel :
(lb) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
*1922 , James Branch Cabell, Gallantry :
As verbs the difference between signify and foreread
is that signify is to give (something) a meaning or an importance while foreread is to signify beforehand; predict.As a noun foreread is
a foreword; preface.signify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- I'll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.
- The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
- A tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)foreread
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
- I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.