单词 | presager |
释义 | presagern. A person who or thing which presages or predicts something; spec. a precursor. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > one who portends presager1591 portender1635 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. G2v Vnvsuall signes,..Presagers of strange terror to the world. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxiii. sig. Cv O let my books be..domb presagers of my speaking brest. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 26 Their Oracles, Augurs, and all the aruspicate Presagers. 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. 188 An able Presager in the Events of this kind of Inflammation. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxvii. 171 On Hymettus were altars likewise, of the showery Jupiter, and of Apollo the presager. 1812 Times 22 June 3/3 Numerous flocks of exotic birds were heard warbling the melancholy note of croaking, as if they were messengers of past, or presagers of future evil. 1896 Science 13 Mar. 413/2 In the myths of the Eastern tribes the raven is of great significance, being the presager of calamities and death. 1951 Western Polit. Q. 4 429 The men of property were..disposed to regard any effort to reproduce those claims as a dangerous presager of insurrection. 2004 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Moviestyle section) Grant built a substantial career on his superficiality—his suave, unflappable demeanor was the presager of that ultimate metrosexual: Bond, James Bond. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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