Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
- n. A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
- n. Prophetic significance or meaning.
- n. Archaic A prediction.
- v. To indicate or warn of in advance; portend.
- v. To have a presentiment of.
- v. To foretell or predict.
- v. To make or utter a prediction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To foreshow or foretoken; signify beforehand, as by an omen or prognostic; give warning of.
- To have a presentiment or prophetic impression of; forebode.
- To foretell; predict; calculate beforehand.
- To point out.
- =Syn. 3. Predict, Prophesy, etc. See foretell.
- To have a presentiment of the future; have foreknowledge.
- n. Something which foreshows, portends, or gives warning of a future event; a prognostic; an omen.
- n. A foreboding; a presentiment; a feeling that something is to happen; a prophetic impression.
- n. Foreknowledge; prescience.
- n. Prophetic significance or import.
- n. Synonyms Sign, Augury, etc. See omen and foretell.
Wiktionary
- n. A warning of a future event; an omen.
- n. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
- v. transitive To predict or foretell something.
- v. intransitive To make a prediction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
- n. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
- v. To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
- v. To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
- v. To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with
of .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a foreboding about what is about to happen
- n. a sign of something about to happen
- v. indicate by signs
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Latin praesāgium, from praesāgīre, to perceive beforehand : prae-, pre- + sāgīre, to perceive; see sāg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He is haughty and imperious: He is a proud man, and his pride is a certain presage of his fall coming on.”
“Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty, just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that they are upon the brink of it.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Note, Pride will have a fall; it is the certain presage and forerunner of it.”
“Does the creation of such an enlightened tag presage a whole series of such musings?”
“As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Anchor.”
“As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her”
“As Mrs. Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Anchor.”
“This funeral rite was a kind of presage of, or prelude to, his death approaching.”
“I wish,” she added, with that love of evil presage which is common in the lower ranks,”
“I wish, "she added, with that love of evil presage which is common in the lower ranks," that Miss Clara may be well, for I never knew her sleep so sound. ”
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