单词 | presageful |
释义 | presagefuladj. 1. a. Full of significance about the future; of the nature of a portent, ominous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective] prognosticate?a1425 prognostical?a1450 prognostaticc1475 portentousc1487 presagiousc1487 prodigiousc1487 prodigial1548 portending1560 augural1568 presaging1592 ominous1593 boding1594 portentive1594 prognostic1603 presageful1606 prognosticous1607 ostentful1608 prognosticant1619 predictious1631 portentful1633 ominal1651 ominating1663 bodeful1813 portentious1863 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 61 Presagefull rayes of some-what more devine. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Battail of Yvry in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1097 O Princely Port! Presagefull Countenance Of Hap at hand! 1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 195 The brawling brook, And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear. 1813 C. Lamb Table-talk in Examiner 12 Sept. 181 The presageful nature of the meteor. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxxi. 584 A better chance of winning the preliminary canter, and thereby securing the advantage of a presageful victory. 1967 Transition 34 31 Fragmentarily, echoes of Ian's presageful cough..entered my sharpened awareness. 1994 G. Robb Balzac 32 This presageful incident is described in Le Lys dans la Vallée, no doubt greatly embellished. b. Capable of foretelling the future; foresightful. ΚΠ 1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 18 Then might be seen by the presageful eye The vision of a rising realm [sc. Rome] unfold. 1890 ‘M. Field’ Tragic Mary ii. ii. 60 Rank me very traitor to my brows With those presageful eyes that look beyond The sin to the appeasement, and remit Still unconceived offences. 1994 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 53 190 Much..about Japanese politics will have to be reconsidered in light of the..changes..since the spring of 1993. As Gary Allinson writes in his presageful introduction, the purposes of the book are to ‘identify and to interpret the changes that seem to underlie an increasing complexity in Japanese politics’. 2. Full of presentiment or foreboding. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adjective] > foreboding misboding1607 foreboding1679 presageful1729 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adjective] > full of foreboding augurous1600 forefeeling1608 presageful1729 1729 R. Savage Wanderer v. 142 No sad, presageful Thought preluded Fate. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Sonnet to Friend who asked how I Felt 10 Dark remembrance and presageful fear. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 108 Ev'n such a wave,..Dark in the glass of some presageful mood, Had I for three days seen. 1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 245 Johnson had not that fine sensitiveness to the political atmosphere which made Burke presageful of coming tempest. 1924 A. B. Longstreet Stud. Devel. Culture South xvi. 352 How he must have been brought to marvel at Calhoun's presageful deathwords: ‘The South, the South, God knows what will become of her!’ 2003 Evening Standard (Nexis) 19 Dec. 30 It was fascinating to note..the dark savagery of his Dies Irae variation—not to mention glittering harps and a presageful brass of the orchestra. Derivatives ˈpresagefully adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adverb] darkly1597 presagingly1612 forefeelingly1808 bodingly1811 presagefully1844 the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [adverb] > in a manner full of foreboding presagefully1844 1844 R. Browning Colombe's Birthday in Bells & Pomegranates No. VI iii. 11/2 Presagefully it beats, presagefully, My heart. 1997 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 305 The Baptist here is not represented in the usual way as his cousin Jesus's playfellow but, presagefully, as the haggard prophet executed by Herod. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606 |
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