præsage

See also: praesage

English

Noun

præsage (plural præsages)

1. Obsolete spelling of presage
   • a. 1619, Josuah Sylvester, “To the High-Hopefull Charles, Prince of Great-Brittaine”, in Du Bartas: His Diuine Weekes and Workes with a Compleate Collectiõ of All the Other Most Delight-full Workes, London: […] Robert Young, published 1633, page 428:

     WHere witty Bertault (in his Fancy) meant / But a faint Præſage of His Prince of France; […]

   • 1683, J[ohn] P[ordage], Theologia Mystica, or The Mystic Divinitie of the Æternal Invisibles, Viz. the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever, London, page 39:

     This is ominous if not abominous: This præſage’s ſomthing more than that is ordinari: Therefore refrein.

   • 1712, Cotton Mather, Thoughts for the Day of Rain. […], Boston, New England: […] B. Green: Sold by Samuel Gerrish […], page 28:

     Yea, there are Præſages of this thing, in the Writings of Pagan Antiquity.

Verb

præsage (third-person singular simple present præsages, present participle præsaging, simple past and past participle præsaged)

1. Obsolete spelling of presage

Anagrams

• sea grape, seagrape