(v. t.) To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.
Example Sentences:
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.