præsage

A form of presage — A warning of a future event; an omen.

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Meanings

nounpræsage (plural præsages)

plural præsages

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of presage.

    Yea, there are Præſages of this thing, in the Writings of Pagan Antiquity.

    1712, Cotton Mather, Thoughts for the Day of Rain. […], Boston, New England: […] B. Green: Sold by Samuel Gerrish […], page 28
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    WHere witty Bertault (in his Fancy) meant / But a faint Præſage of His Prince of France; […]

    a. 1619, Josuah Sylvester, “To the High-Hopefull Charles, Prince of Great-Brittaine”, in Du Bartas: His Diuine Weekes and Workes with a Compleate Collectiõ of All the Other Most Delight-full Workes, London: […] Robert Young, published 1633, page 428

    This is ominous if not abominous: This præſage’s ſomthing more than that is ordinari: Therefore refrein.

    1683, J[ohn] P[ordage], Theologia Mystica, or The Mystic Divinitie of the Æternal Invisibles, Viz. the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever, London, page 39
verbpræsage (third-person singular simple present præsages, present participle præsaging, simple past and past participle præsaged)

present singular third person præsages · participle present præsaging · participle past præsaged · past præsaged

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of presage.
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