(adj) of momentous or ominous significance; - Herman Melville, Syn.prodigious, Example: such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity; a prodigious vision
n. [ F. porte a gate, L. porta. See Port a gate. ] The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. See Port a gate, and Coach. ] (Arch.) A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending. ] [ L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend. ] 1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To stretch out before. [ R. ] “Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. portentum. See Portend. ] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
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