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Definition of Presage

1. Noun. A foreboding about what is about to happen.

2. Verb. Indicate by signs. "These signs bode bad news"

3. Noun. A sign of something about to happen. "He looked for an omen before going into battle"

Definition of Presage

1. n. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

2. v. t. To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

3. v. i. To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

Definition of Presage

1. Noun. A warning of a future event; an omen. ¹

2. Noun. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To predict or foretell something. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To make a prediction. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Presage

1. to foretell [v -SAGED, -SAGING, -SAGES] - See also: foretell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presage

prerock prerogative prerogative writ prerogatived prerogatively prerogatives prerolls preromantic prerotation preround

prerupt pres. presa presacral presage (current term) presaged presageful presagement presager presagers

presages presageth presaging presagious presale presales presanctified presaturation presbycusis

Literary usage of Presage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"Cu., of pleasing forms, dispositions, and colours, and of moderate size, presage fine dry warm and calm days; but cold, rain, and tempest follow dark, ..."

2. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus (1824)
"... taking for a presage of good fortune, ordered him to accompany them in the expedition. The Grecians continued in their station that day, ..."

3. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"A presage is я sign which announces the future. presage partakes more of the nature of proof, augury of inference. The augury is more in our minds, ..."

4. A Treasury of English Prose by Logan Pearsall Smith (1920)
"presage OF VICTORY WHEN a city shall be as it were besieged and blocked ... Next, it is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. ..."

5. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1903)
"EARLIEST presage OF THE CRUSADES— HUNGARY BECOMES A PROVINCE OF THE ROMAN CHURCH—OTTO III. ON THE AVENTINE—H1s MYSTICISM—HE RETURNS TO GERMANY—REVISITS ..."

6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... insects in oak-apples, is I doubt too indistinct, The presage of the year succeeding made from palpitation; my guts by the motion ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Republic had prt claimed (1796) liberty of religious worship, and in this Catholics saw a presage of better days. The constitution of the new Kingdom of ..."

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