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presage 音标拼音: [pr'ɛsɪdʒ] n. 预感,预兆,预知
vt. 成为…的前兆,预示,预言
vi. 预言 预感,预兆,预知成为…的前兆,预示,预言预言 presage n 1: a foreboding about what is about to happen 2: a sign of something about to happen; " he looked for an omen before going into battle" [ synonym: { omen}, { portent}, { presage}, { prognostic}, { prognostication}, { prodigy}] v 1: indicate by signs; " These signs bode bad news" [ synonym: { bode}, { portend}, { auspicate}, { prognosticate}, { omen}, { presage}, { betoken}, { foreshadow}, { augur}, { foretell}, { prefigure}, { forecast}, { predict}] 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] 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. [ 1913 Webster] If there be aught of presage in the mind. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Prognostic; omen; token; sign; presentiment. [ 1913 Webster]
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 beforehand; to foreknow. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate. [ 1913 Webster] My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Presage \ Pre* sage"\, v. i. To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 94 Moby Thesaurus words for " presage": actuarial prediction, adumbrate, apocalypse, apprehensiveness, augur, augury, auspicate, bespeak, betoken, bode, boding, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, clairvoyance, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, forefeeling, foreknowing, foreknowledge, forerun, foresee, foreseeability, foreshadow, foreshow, foreshowing, foresight, foretell, foretelling, foretoken, forewisdom, fortune- tell, guess, guesswork, harbinger, hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, herald, hunch, improbability, indicate, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, misgiving, omen, portend, portent, preapprehension, precognition, predict, prediction, prefiguration, prefigure, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindicate, premonition, prenotion, presagement, presaging, prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesy, prophesying, prospectus, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay, speculate, speculation, statistical prediction, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate, vaticination
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