From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Portend \Por*tend"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. --Macaulay.
2. To stretch out before. [R.] ''Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.'' --Pope.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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