The definition of a presage is a feeling or warning about something that's going to happen.
An example of a presage is a bomb threat being called in.
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 presage
Middle English ; from Middle French ; from Classical Latin praesagium, a foreboding ; from prae-, before + sagire, to perceive: see pre- and amp; sagacious -·aged′, -·ag′ing
- to give a presage, or warning, of; portend
- to have a foreboding or presentiment of
- to predict
Origin of presage
Fr présager < the vt.- Rare to have a presentiment
- to make a prediction
presage
noun
- An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
- A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
- Prophetic significance or meaning.
- Archaic A prediction.
verb
pre·saged, pre·sag·ing, pre·sag·esverb
, transitive- To indicate or warn of in advance; portend.
- To have a presentiment of.
- To foretell or predict.
verb
, intransitive To make or utter a prediction.
Origin of presage
Middle English, from Latin praesagium, from praesag&imacron;re, to perceive beforehand : prae-, pre- + sag&imacron;re, to perceive; see sag- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- pre·sage′ful
adjective
presage
Noun
(plural presages)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present presages, present participle presaging, simple past and past participle presaged)
- To predict or foretell something.
- (intransitive) To make a prediction.
- To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Origin
This word hails from French "présage"
