foretoken(n = noun.event) augury, preindication, sign - an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God"
is a kind of experience
has particulars: war cloud, omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication

   Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

   To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. [1913 Webster]
"Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood."

foretoken, n. & v.
--n. a sign of something to come.
--v.tr. portend; indicate beforehand.

Etymology:
OE foretacn (as FORE-, TOKEN)

VB  predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.