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单词 presageful
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presagefuladj.

Brit. /ˈprɛsɪdʒf(ᵿ)l/, /prɪˈseɪdʒfʊl/, U.S. /priˈseɪdʒf(ə)l/, /ˈprɛsᵻdʒf(ə)l/
Forms: see presage n. and -ful suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: presage n., -ful suffix.
Etymology: < presage n. + -ful suffix.
1.
a. Full of significance about the future; of the nature of a portent, ominous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective]
prognosticate?a1425
prognostical?a1450
prognostaticc1475
portentousc1487
presagiousc1487
prodigiousc1487
prodigial1548
portending1560
augural1568
presaging1592
ominous1593
boding1594
portentive1594
prognostic1603
presageful1606
prognosticous1607
ostentful1608
prognosticant1619
predictious1631
portentful1633
ominal1651
ominating1663
bodeful1813
portentious1863
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 61 Presagefull rayes of some-what more devine.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1097 O Princely Port! Presagefull Countenance Of Hap at hand!
1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 195 The brawling brook, And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear.
1813 C. Lamb Table-talk in Examiner 12 Sept. 181 The presageful nature of the meteor.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxi. 584 A better chance of winning the preliminary canter, and thereby securing the advantage of a presageful victory.
1967 Transition 34 31 Fragmentarily, echoes of Ian's presageful cough..entered my sharpened awareness.
1994 G. Robb Balzac 32 This presageful incident is described in Le Lys dans la Vallée, no doubt greatly embellished.
b. Capable of foretelling the future; foresightful.
ΚΠ
1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 18 Then might be seen by the presageful eye The vision of a rising realm [sc. Rome] unfold.
1890 ‘M. Field’ Tragic Mary ii. ii. 60 Rank me very traitor to my brows With those presageful eyes that look beyond The sin to the appeasement, and remit Still unconceived offences.
1994 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 53 190 Much..about Japanese politics will have to be reconsidered in light of the..changes..since the spring of 1993. As Gary Allinson writes in his presageful introduction, the purposes of the book are to ‘identify and to interpret the changes that seem to underlie an increasing complexity in Japanese politics’.
2. Full of presentiment or foreboding.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > foreboding
misboding1607
foreboding1679
presageful1729
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adjective] > full of foreboding
augurous1600
forefeeling1608
presageful1729
1729 R. Savage Wanderer v. 142 No sad, presageful Thought preluded Fate.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Sonnet to Friend who asked how I Felt 10 Dark remembrance and presageful fear.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 108 Ev'n such a wave,..Dark in the glass of some presageful mood, Had I for three days seen.
1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 245 Johnson had not that fine sensitiveness to the political atmosphere which made Burke presageful of coming tempest.
1924 A. B. Longstreet Stud. Devel. Culture South xvi. 352 How he must have been brought to marvel at Calhoun's presageful deathwords: ‘The South, the South, God knows what will become of her!’
2003 Evening Standard (Nexis) 19 Dec. 30 It was fascinating to note..the dark savagery of his Dies Irae variation—not to mention glittering harps and a presageful brass of the orchestra.

Derivatives

ˈpresagefully adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adverb]
darkly1597
presagingly1612
forefeelingly1808
bodingly1811
presagefully1844
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adverb] > in a manner full of foreboding
presagefully1844
1844 R. Browning Colombe's Birthday in Bells & Pomegranates No. VI iii. 11/2 Presagefully it beats, presagefully, My heart.
1997 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 305 The Baptist here is not represented in the usual way as his cousin Jesus's playfellow but, presagefully, as the haggard prophet executed by Herod.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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