Presage
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Something which foreshows a future event; a
prognostic; a present fact indicating something to come.
2. Joy and
shout, presage of victory.
Presage
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
To form or utter a
prediction; with of. We may presage of heats and rains. We may presage of heats and rains. [Not common nor elegant.]
Presage
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To
forebode; to
foreshow; to indicate by some present fact what is to follow or come to pass. A
fog rising from a river in an
autumnal morning presages a pleasant day. A physical phenomenon cannot be considered as
presaging an event, unless it has some connection with it in cause. Hence the error of vulgar
superstition, which presages good or evil from facts which can have no relation to the future event.
3. Wish'd freedom I presage you soon will find.
Presage
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
To form or utter a
prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Presage
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power;
foreknowledge; presentiment.
Full of presages; containing presages.
Presager
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
