0 past simple and past participle of presage --
1 to show or suggest that something, often something unpleasant, will happen: --
Because there is a close correlation between the measures deployed against hiring fairs, their economic and social context, and the critique that presaged them, these aspects will be briefly revisited.
In a sense, his angry tone presaged the revolt against capitalism of the 1960s; and his gloomy analysis about inexorable market liberalism predicts that rebellion's failure.
This twofold education presaged his attempts to reach an alternative modernization, as discussed below.
However, isolated cases that were reported in the literature presaged what is increasingly being recognised as a widespread zoonosis due to diverse agents.
Although largely a retrospective model, it presaged, in these later processes, the prospective models soon to follow.
However, in the second use the verb becomes a metaphor for the smearing of colour, presaged by the verb ' ' glazed.
This growth in 'civilised' taste was more than ornamental: it presaged a 'decided amelioration' in the countryside.
No one could tell how long they might continue, how strong they would become, or even if they presaged another severe earthquake.
