premonstrate

From Latin praemonstratus, past participle of praemonstrare, from prae (“before”) + monstrate (“to show”).

premonstrate (third-person singular simple present premonstrates, present participle premonstrating, simple past and past participle premonstrated)

1. To show beforehand; to foreshow.
   • 1588, John Harvey, A Discoursive Probleme concerning Prophesies, how far they are to be valued or credited:

     The same coniunction againe infusing, doth out of all doubt premonstrate the second coming of the sonne of God and man in the maiestie of his glorie.

• “premonstrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.