presage

presage
n
1. presentiment, foreboding, feeling, vague feeling, Inf. funny feeling, Inf. feeling in one's bones, suspicion, Inf. sneaking suspicion, Inf. hunch, intuition; anxiety, misgiving, apprehension, apprehen-siveness, boding; dread, fear, ill feeling, chill along the spine, Sl. bad vibes.
2. omen, sign, portent, token, foretoken, harbinger; prognostic, prognostication, bodement, prediction, soothsaying, forecast, prophecy, prefigurement, augury, auspice, vaticination, divination; premonition, indication, preindication, forewarning, foreshadowing, handwriting on the wall.
3. foresight, prevision, prescience, foreknowledge, clairvoyance, clairvoyancy, precognition, second sight,
v
4. sense, intuit, feel, foresee, have a feeling, Inf. have a funny feeling, Inf. feel in one's bones.
5. foreshadow, forebode, foretoken, foreshow, prefigure, presignify, preindicate; augur, portend, bode, omen; betoken, signify, mean, indicate, point to.
6. forecast, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, divine, Ion, specter, wraith, revenant, shadow, apparition, ghost.

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  • présage — [ prezaʒ ] n. m. • presaige 1390; lat. præsagium 1 ♦ Signe d après lequel on croit prévoir l avenir. ⇒ 1. augure, auspices. Croire aux présages. Bon, mauvais présage. « Il jeta par trois fois, dans l air, des pièces de monnaie. Toutes les fois,… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • presage — PRESAGE. s. m. Signe, accident par lequel on juge de l avenir. Bon presage. mauvais presage. cela est d un heureux presage. cela fut regardé comme un tres heureux presage. cet embrasement fut un grand presage de ce qui devoit arriver dans la… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Presage — Pre sage, n. [F. pr[ e]sage, L. praesagium, from praesagire. See {Presage}, v. t. ] [1913 Webster] 1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. Joy and shout presage of victory. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Presage — Présage Le présage (du latin præsagium) est un terme générique désignant une manifestation des dieux afin de faire connaître l avenir. Les Romains utilisaient plusieurs termes plus ou moins synonymes (omen, monstrum, signum, ostentum...). Les… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • presage — [pres′ij; ] for v. [ prē sāj′, pri sāj′, pres′ij] n. [ME < MFr < L praesagium, a foreboding < prae , before + sagire, to perceive: see PRE & SAGACIOUS] 1. a sign or warning of a future event; omen; portent; augury 2. a foreboding;… …   English World dictionary

  • Presage — Pre*sage , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Presaged} ( s[=a]jd ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Presaging}. ] [F. pr[ e]sager, L. praesagire: prae before + sagire to perceive acutely or sharply. See {Sagacious}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To have a presentiment of; to feel… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • présagé — présagé, ée (pré za jé, jée) part. passé de présager. Un malheur trop sûrement présagé …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • presage# — presage n *foretoken, prognostic, omen, augury, portent Analogous words: *sign, symptom, mark, token: forewarning, warning (see WARN) presage vb augur, portend, forebode, prognosticate, *foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy Analogous words:… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • presage — [n] prediction, indication apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication,… …   New thesaurus

  • Presage — Pre*sage , v. i. To form or utter a prediction; sometimes used with of. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • presage — I verb adumbrate, advise, announce in advance, anticipate, augur, augurari, augurate, auspicate, betoken, bode, divine, envision, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, have a presentiment,… …   Law dictionary

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