Word Meanings - PRESAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

Related words: (words related to PRESAGEMENT)

• PRESAGIOUS
  Foreboding; ominous.
• FOREBODINGLY
  In a foreboding manner.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• OMINOUS
  Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
• PRESAGE
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
• PRESAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PRESAGEFUL
  Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• FOREBODEMENT
  The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
• FOREBODER
  One who forebodes.
• FOREBODING
  Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.
• FOREBODE
  1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,
• PRESAGER
  One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• BINOMINOUS
  Binominal.
• ABDOMINOUS
  Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .