Associations to the word «Presage»

Wiktionary

PRESAGE, noun. A warning of a future event; an omen.
PRESAGE, noun. An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
PRESAGE, verb. (transitive) To predict or foretell something.
PRESAGE, verb. (intransitive) To make a prediction.
PRESAGE, verb. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Dictionary definition

PRESAGE, noun. A foreboding about what is about to happen.
PRESAGE, noun. A sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle".
PRESAGE, verb. Indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne