(n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
(v. t.) An omen.
(v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To be ominous.
Example Sentences:
(1) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(2) Factors that militated against successful rehabilitation were the severity of the patients' illness at presentation, unemployment coupled with poor educational status and distance from the hospital of patient's normal abode.
(3) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(4) Socially, the majority of these were lonely and many of these had no fixed abode.
(5) Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space.
(6) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(7) A Greater Manchester police spokesman said: "Gregory Horan, 26, of no fixed abode, has been charged with being drunk in an aircraft and Lee Patrick Byrne, 28, from Dublin, Republic of Ireland, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence."
(8) Homeless people in London residing in bed and breakfast and private sector leased accommodation, residing in hostels, and of no fixed abode.
(9) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(10) But on Thursday the president would have found men shooting hoops near his future abode.
(11) On the contrary, the extracts of animals dwelling in the sea of Okhotsk possess the activating effect, except for sponges of genera Haliclona whose sample extracts display a significant activating effect independently of their place of abode.
(12) "In a semi-permanent-looking abode between two walls and a vending machine was Heidi Launne, a Swedish industrial design student at Aston University in Birmingham, who had been due to take a Scandinavian airlines flight to Helsinki at 6pm on Saturday.
(13) To do so, they need to have a national insurance number, which can only be allocated to people with a fixed abode – difficult for Roma, who tend to move about even within their own countries.
(14) In his dissenting judgment, Lord Bingham declared as void and unlawful a 2004 order to declare, without the authority of parliament, that no person had the right of abode in the Chagos islands.
(15) We can see where people lived, the household structure of each abode, their ages, where they were born, whether they had any disabilities, their occupations and how many children the family had (again, we find that not everybody had lots of children living in a single room, and how many children you had could depend on where in the country you lived).
(16) Those of no fixed abode constituted only 0.3% of all new patients seen in one year.
(17) Oskar Pawlowicz, 30, of Mitcham, and Dawid Tychon, 29, of no fixed abode, both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary.
(18) Except for this, the ice has been unusually quiet, and it is closed in tightly round the ship,” Nansen reports, “Since the last strong pressure we have probably 10 to 20 feet of ice packed in below us.” In his book Farthest North (Tandem Books, 1975) he writes: “The Fram is a warm, cosy abode.
(19) It is a huge loss to the family and a big loss for the wider community.” On the Masjid Al Aqsa mosque’s Facebook page, a picture of Akram was shared with the message: “We share not only the picture but also the pain and grief of his departure from this world to the eternal abode of bliss.” Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi tweeted: Yasmin Qureshi MP (@YasminQureshiMP) Saddened to hear that a young man from #Bolton was amongst those killed in tragic Saudi crane collapse.
(20) Naypyidaw, the grand but empty capital Myanmar’s generals built for themselves, means “abode of kings”, a hint at their aspirations.
Presage
Definition:
(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
(2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
(3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
(4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
(5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
(6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
(7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
(8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
(9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
(10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
(11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
(12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
(13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
(14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
(15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
(16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
(17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
(18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
(20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.