Omen - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: omenOmened
Attended by or containing an omen or omens as happy omened day an ill omened venture...
Ill omened
Having unlucky omens inauspicious See Note under Ill adv...
Ominous
Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens being or exhibiting an omen significant portentous formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense now chiefly in the latter foreboding or foreshowing evil inauspicious as an ominous dread...
Bode
To indicate by signs as future events to be the omen of to portend to presage to foreshow...
Bodement
An omen a prognostic...
Catoptromancy
A species of divination which was performed by letting down a mirror into water for a sick person to look at his face in it If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly it was an ill omen if fresh and healthy it was favorable...
Dire
Ill boding portentous as dire omens...
Dismal
Fatal ill omened unlucky...
Foretoken
Prognostic previous omen...
Handsel
A sale gift or delivery into the hand of another especially a sale gift delivery or using which is the first of a series and regarded as an omen for the rest a first installment an earnest as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning the first money taken at a shop newly opened the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day etc...
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