Emily Dickinson Lexicon

prophetic, adj. [Fr. prophétique or late L. prophētic-us < Gk προφήτης, interpreter, proclaimer, spokesman, inspired person <πρό, forth, before, for + φητης, speak.] (webplay: book, foreshow, knows, person).

Foreboding; foreshadowing; portentous; prognostic; premonitory; [fig.] signaling the imminent approach of winter.