What does "presage" mean?
Presage: Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught of presage in the mind. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
- 3.To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. Shak.
- 4.To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of. Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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