Presage
['presɪdʒ] or ['prɛsɪdʒ]
Definition
(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Forebode, divine, foreknow, have a presentiment of.[2]. Foretell, predict, prophesy, foreshow, betoken, foretoken, prognosticate, augur, VATICINATE.
n. Omen, sign, prognostic, augury, portent, token, foreboding, indication.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition
ANT:fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization
SYN:Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur,[See PORTEND]
Typed by Doreen
Definition
n. something that gives warning of a future event: a foreboding: a presentiment.—v.t. Prēsage′ to forebode: to warn of something to come: to predict.—v.i. to have a presentiment of.—adj. Presage′ful.—ns. Presage′ment the act of presaging: that which is presaged: prediction; Presag′er.
Checker: Merle
Examples
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The blood-red haze that presaged death to my foes swam before my eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The yellow and vapoury sunset which had wrapped up Eustacia from his parting gaze had presaged change. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was only the confirmation of the dark presages which had long gone before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was in the whole atmosphere of the craft that undefinable something which presages disaster. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Dr. Arnold was doubtless right when he looked upon the railway as presaging the end of the feudal system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Myra