To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy.
Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold.
To tell (a person) of the future.
[…] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
c. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell.
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