noun

1. a sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent; augury
2. a foreboding; presentiment
3. Rare a prediction
4. foreshadowing quality of ominous presage

Etymology: ME < MFr < L praesagium, a foreboding < prae-, before + sagire, to perceive: see pre- & sagacious

transitive verb presaged -·aged′, presaging -·ag′·ing

1. to give a presage, or warning, of; portend
2. to have a foreboding or presentiment of
3. to predict

Etymology: Fr présager < the vt.

intransitive verb

1. Rare to have a presentiment
2. to make a prediction