pres|age

pres|age «noun. PREHS ihj; verb. prih SAYJ», noun, verb, pre|saged, pre|sag|ing.

–n.

1. a sign felt as a warning; omen.

2. a feeling that something is about to happen; presentiment; foreboding: »

She could not sleep at night and was haunted by a presage of disaster (Samuel Butler).

3. a prediction; prognostication.

–v.t.

1. to give warning of; predict: »

The farmer told us that a circle around the moon presages a storm.

2. to have or give a prophetic impression of.

–v.i.

to form or utter a presage or prediction.

╂[< Latin praesāgium < praesāgīre to forebode < praesāgus foreboding, adjective < prae- before + sāgus prophetic]

–pre|sag´er, noun.

–pre|sag´ing|ly, adverb.