ominate

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/ˈɒmɪneɪt/

Definition of ominate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(obsolete, transitive)To be an omen for (something); to foreshow, to presage.

“A King thou art by name, and a King of good fellovvſhippe by nature, vvhereby I ominate this Encomion of the king of fiſhes vvas predeſtinate to thee from thy ſvvadling clothes.”
“I vviſh Philotheus no vvorſe ſucceſs then he had yesterday. But I cannot ominate ſo vvell touching this Congreſs.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Latin ominātus, perfect active participle of ominor (“to presage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from omen.

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