foretale
nounEtymology
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An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work
An account or telling given as an introduction to a larger body of work; prologue; a prior or previous recollection or account of events
- Mentioned in the ancient lists as Prime Stories, these short narratives were evidently foretales (remscéla) to the saga of Conaire Mor, the Great King of Tara, regarded by several clans as their ancestor.
- The final foretale is a story of magical transformation with comic undertones, explaining how the two great bulls, the Brown and the Whitehorned, came to be.
An account given in advance
An account given in advance; prediction
- One can gain further insight by looking at what “foretales/ prophecies” are, and how they are made. It is interesting to consider the very terms themselves, and their evolution through time.
The neighborhood
- synonymforespeech
- synonymforetalk
- synonymforeword
- synonymprediction
- antonymaftertaleantonym(s) of
- antonymafterword
- neighborforetell
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for foretale. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA