- Present participle of presage.
Variant of presage
- a sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent; augury
- a foreboding; presentiment
- Rare a prediction
- foreshadowing quality: of ominous presage
Origin of presageMiddle English ; from Middle French ; from Classical Latin praesagium, a foreboding ; from prae-, before + sagire, to perceive: see pre- and amp; sagacious
transitive verbpresaged, presaging
- to give a presage, or warning, of; portend
- to have a foreboding or presentiment of
- to predict
Origin of presageFr présager < the vt.
- Rare to have a presentiment
- to make a prediction