Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Portend

Portend , transitive verb

[Latin 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. [Rare]
Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel. — Pope