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Webster 1913 Edition
Presage
1.
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
“Joy and shout – presage of victory.” Milton.
2.
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
If there be aught of
presage
in the mind. Milton.
Syn. – Prognostic; omen; token; sign; presentiment.
Pre-sage′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Presaged
(-sājd′)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Presaging
. ] 1.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
2.
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
My dreams
presage
some joyful news at hand. Shakespeare
Pre-sage′
,Verb.
I.
To form or utter a prediction; – sometimes used with of.
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Presage
PRE'SAGE
,Noun.
Joy and shout, presage of victory.
Definition 2024
presage
presage
English
Noun
presage (plural presages)
Translations
A warning of a future event; an omen
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment
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Verb
presage (third-person singular simple present presages, present participle presaging, simple past and past participle presaged)
- (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
- Shakespeare:
- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a second term, Obama will confront familiar headwinds”, in The New York Times:
- That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.
- Shakespeare:
- (intransitive) To make a prediction.
- (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.