presage

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A warning of a future event

   A warning of a future event; an omen.

   • Speak frankly, Mirzes—nor believe thy words, / Whatever black preſages they contain, / Subjoin'd to all Trophonius hath foretold, / Can change my firm reſolves, or blunt my ſword.
2. 2

   An intuition of a future event

   An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.

   • Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!
3. 3

   To predict or foretell something.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To make a prediction.

   2. 5

      To have a presentiment of

      To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

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