presage

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛsɪdʒ/ / /pɹɪˈseɪdʒ/

Etymology: From Middle English presage, from Latin praesāgium.

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.”
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
“Glad was I when I reached the other bank. / Now for a better country. Vain presage!”

Etymology: From Middle English presage, from Latin praesāgium.

To predict or foretell something.
“If I may truſt the flattering truth of ſleepe, / My dreames preſage ſome ioyfull newes at hand : / My boſomes L. ſits lightly in his throne : / And all this day an vnaccuſtom’d ſpirit, / Lifts me aboue the ground with cheatfull thoughts […]”
“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.”
To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.