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Definition of 'presage'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) presage
to portend; foreshadow:
The incidents may presage war.

2.  presage
to forecast; predict.

3. (v.i.) presage
to make a prediction.

4. (n.) presage
presentiment; foreboding.

5.  presage
something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen.

6.  presage
prophetic significance; augury.

7.  presage
Archaic. a prediction.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME (n.) < MF < L praesāgium=praesāg(us) having a foreboding (prae-pre - +sāgus prophetic; cf. sagacious ) +-ium -ium¹)

Definition of 'presage'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) presage
a foreboding about what is about to happen

2. (verb) omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy
a sign of something about to happen
"he looked for an omen before going into battle"

3. (verb) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
indicate by signs
"These signs bode bad news"

Definition of 'presage'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) presage
something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury

2. (verb) presage
power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment

3. (verb) presage
to have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow

4. (verb) presage
to foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate

5. (verb) presage
to form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of

'presage' - Nearby Entries
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