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▪ I. presaging, vbl. n.|prɛˈsədʒɪŋ, prɪˈseɪdʒɪŋ|
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The action of the vb. presage; prognostication.
1598Florio, Presagia, the arte of presaging or diuination. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 241 When or where their divinations and presagings were most received. 1744Berkeley Siris §252 Plotinus observes..that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order. 1906Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 246 Destined to fulfil in his person the presagings of the nation's seers.
▪ II. preˈsaging, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That presages. a. Foreboding, portending, giving augury.
1606Holland Sueton. 242 Presaging tokens which I will now relate. 1704Hymn Vict. lix, We had presaging Tokens of Success. 1846Trench Mirac. xviii. (1862) 299 The very name of the pool having in his eyes a presaging fitness.
b. That has presentiment or prevision.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 459 The portending heauinesse of my presaging soule. a1664K. Philips In Mem. F. P. Poems (1667) 40 No, thou art gone, and thy presaging Mind. 1713Young Force Relig. ii. 114 [He] wondring sees in sad presaging thought. 1893Standard 14 June, So much for the presaging intelligence which first invented the fable.
Hence preˈsagingly adv., in a presaging manner.
1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 48 How often..haue I heard Robert Parsons..presagingly hope for such contentions vpon vnion of the two kingdomes. 1660A. Sadler Subject's Joy 2 The Younger is a Masquer; and she also..doth..præsagingly præact his just Inauguration. 1846Chambers' Misc. XI. Alex. Andrayne 5 The jailer opened a little door studded with iron, on which my eyes had been from the first presagingly fixed. |