0 to show or suggest that something, often something unpleasant, will happen:
These could presage the emergence of circular chromosomes (see also below) and further study is warranted.
Thus, low levels of fear in infancy may presage difficulties in socialization.
This institutional heterogeneity presages a great diversity of motives, objectives and behavioural characteristics.
The analysis originally presaged in this research project implicitly presumed that economic returns would be positive before externalities were considered.
The troubled colossus was being turned briefly into a people's fun palace, its gloomy threat spirited away, presaging its recasting as the locus of democracy.
This did not, however, presage any fundamental change of attitude.
Actions we perform that are not presaged in our minds, in turn, would appear not to be caused by our minds.
Many miracules reported that the cure was presaged by great pain.
