preconize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
    — The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in their midst.

词形变化

preconizes present,singular,third-person preconizing participle,present preconized participle,past preconized past preconise alternative praeconise alternative

词源

From Latin praecō (“herald”) + -ize or Latin praecōnizō.
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