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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for presage:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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" [syn: omen, portent, presage,
       prognostic, prognostication, prodigy]
    v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
         bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
         presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
         prefigure, forecast, predict]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Presage \Pre"sage\, n. [F. pr['e]sage, L. praesagium, from
   praesagire. See Presage, v. t. ]
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   1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a
      prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage
      of victory." --Milton.
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   2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power;
      foreknowledge; presentiment.
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            If there be aught of presage in the mind. --Milton.
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   Syn: Prognostic; omen; token; sign; presentiment.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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   1. To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to
      foreknow.
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   2. To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
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            My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Presage \Pre*sage"\, v. i.
   To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
   --Dryden.
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