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presage

[n. pres-ij; v. pres-ij, pri-seyj]

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noun

a presentiment or foreboding.

something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.

prophetic significance; augury.

foresight; prescience.

Archaic. a forecast or prediction.

verb (used with object)

to have a presentiment of.

to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow: The incidents may presage war.

to forecast; predict.

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verb (used without object)

to make a prediction.

10.

Archaic. to have a presentiment.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (noun) < Middle French presage < Latin praesāgium presentiment, forewarning, equivalent to praesāg(us) having a foreboding (prae- pre- + sāgus prophetic; compare sagacious) + -ium -ium

Related forms

pres·age·ful, adjective

pres·age·ful·ly, adverb

pres·ag·er, noun

un·pres·aged, adjective

un·pres·ag·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. foreshadowing, indication, premonition. 2. portent, sign, token.

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The transaction is the largest buyout in the for-profit education sector and could presage a wave of similar deals.

Whatever the amount, the case might presage major changes in the way college athletes are treated.

The dictator's funeral may presage political change.

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The transaction is the largest buyout in the for-profit education sector and could presage a wave of similar deals.

Whatever the amount, the case might presage major changes in the way college athletes are treated.

The dictator's funeral may presage political change.

Some of the quiet types could presage devastating tsunamis or larger, ground-shaking shocks.

The market meltdown does not presage another depression.

Rapid growth in money and credit may also presage inflationary trouble.

Some of the quiet types could presage devastating tsunamis or larger, ground-shaking shock.

And it may presage the entrance of other state pension funds into this arena.

On past form the slowdown seemed likely to presage a long slump.

But they might presage crises more reliably than a focus on the short term.

The somewhat manufactured quality of this year's political tantrum over oil may presage big changes to come.

The change in personnel-rarely a good sign-seemed to presage a change in strategy.

Yet the plight of the news business does not presage the end of news.

Brotherhood sources believe the arrests may presage a wider crackdown.

They may also presage a new period of declining prices.

But human-rights monitors fear this may presage a first step towards a wider web of censorship.

Marin's devices is to presage the story she will tell with an advance image.

And this, they add, could presage a bloody struggle for supremacy between the two groups.

Still, the successful offering could presage a wave of followers among private equity firms.

Usually these odd finds presage the discovery of a major wreck.

While no final decision is expected, the report could presage the road's fate.

It is too soon to tell whether these rulings presage that kind of sea change.

Zandi noted that they did not expect the mortgage problems to presage a recession as long as the job market remained healthy.

But such a move may presage other efforts to fix areas of the state's infrastructure beyond its ailing water system.

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World English Dictionary

presage

—n
1.	an intimation or warning of something about to happen; portent; omen
2.	a sense of what is about to happen; foreboding
3.	archaic a forecast or prediction

—vb
4.	(tr) to have a presentiment of
5.	(tr) to give a forewarning of; portend
6.	(intr) to make a prediction

[C14: from Latin praesāgium presentiment, from praesāgīre to perceive beforehand, from sāgīre to perceive acutely]

pre'sageful

—*adj*

pre'sagefully

—*adv*

pre'sager

—n

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Word Origin & History

presage

1390 (n.) "something that portends," from L. præsagium "a foreboding," from præsagire "to perceive beforehand, forebode," from præsagus "foreboding," from præ- "before" + sagus "prophetic," related to sagire "perceive" (see sagacious). The verb

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is first attested 1562, from M.Fr. présager (16c.), from présage "omen," from L. præsagium.

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