Presage vs Prisage - What's the difference?
presage | prisage |
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
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To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(legal, UK, obsolete) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
(obsolete) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
As nouns the difference between presage and prisage
is that presage is a warning of a future event; an omen while prisage is a right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.As a verb presage
is to predict or foretell something.presage
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(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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Synonyms
* foreshadow * portendprisage
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(en noun)- (Blackstone)