pretell

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tell.

Verb

pretell (third-person singular simple present pretells, present participle pretelling, simple past and past participle pretold)

1. To predict.
   • 1983, David A. White, The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics:

     The Roman historian Tacitus does not simply tell what has happened in a past long past so that it will be preserved for the present and into an endless future; rather, he pretells what has happened, in effect transposing history (necessarily of the past) into prediction (necessarily of the future).