presagement
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editpresagement (countable and uncountable, plural presagements)
- The act or art of presaging; a foreboding.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, paragraph 3, page 265:
- The falling of Salt is an authenticke preſagement of ill lucke, nor can every temper contemne it, from whence notwithſtanding nothing can be naturally feared: […]
- That which is presaged, or foretold.
References
edit- “presagement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.