1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 200 My feare did euer deuine this hap, though my wellwishing impugned my presagings.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes The arte of presaging or diuination.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 241 When or where their divinations and presagings were most received.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §252 Plotinus observes..that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order.

a1820 J. R. Drake in Harper's Mag. (1874) June 71/1 Why damp the bliss with such presagings sad While eyes around are bright, and hearts are glad?

1852 tr. P. Chasles Anglo-Amer. Lit. & Manners i. 9 The American war is about to break out; the low murmurs of the tempest rumble from afar... These presagings sadden you.

1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 246 Destined to fulfil in his person the presagings of the nation's seers.

1994 M. L. Ross Storied Cities ii. ix. 116 When after hundreds of pages he does at last arrive in Venice, he finds that the city uncannily fulfills the presagings of his dreams.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 37^v I was affraide of the presaging poesie that I had read.

a1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) 640 The sad presaging Rauen.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 242 Presaging tokens which I will now relate.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 223 For without a constellated fabrication, or confection; all these presaging Mirables (and the like) signifie nothing in effect.

1704 Hymn Vict. lix We had presaging Tokens of Success.

1813 Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 24 Mar. Presaging flashes of heroic enterprise assure us that nothing is wanting.

1862 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 7) xviii. 299 The very name of the pool having in his eyes a presaging fitness.

a1924 K. O. Fairbridge in Veld Verse (1928) 12 With presaging breath, He warns the unwary footstep with a hiss.

1961 Jrnl. Philos. 58 485 The relation of the oracular god or the presaging dream in regard to this destiny is that of an informed expert.

1989 D. Morris Catlore (BNC) 50 He has felt the presaging shadow of death, and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild—alone.

1594 S. Daniel Trag. Cleopatra sig. L7^v I know not what presaging thought My sp'rit suggests of luckles bad euent.

1598 E. Ford Parismus xxvi. 213 I haue alreadie hadde triall of the euent of my presaging thoughts.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 459 The portending heauinesse of my presaging soule.

a1664 K. Philips In Mem. F. P. in Poems (1667) 40 No, thou art gone, and thy presaging Mind.

1713 E. Young Force of Relig. ii. 114 [He] wondring sees in sad presaging thought.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 80 My presaging mind bodes horrid mischiefs.

?1800 W. Sotheby Cambrian Hero iii. vii. 47 E'en now my sad presaging heart forebodes, That when we part, I ne'er shall see thee more.

1893 Standard 14 June So much for the presaging intelligence which first invented the fable.

1941 tr. Horace in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 62 89 This the presaging mind of Regulus did guard against, for he dissented to the shameful terms.

1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 48 How often..haue I heard Robert Parsons..presagingly hope for such contentions vpon vnion of the two kingdomes.

1846 Alex. Andrayne in Chambers' Misc. 11 5 The jailer opened a little door studded with iron, on which my eyes had been from the first presagingly fixed.

1999 H. A. Strobel Reflections vi. 46 As the end of a drought approached we could feel the imminent return of the rain. The birds and tree frogs knew it too and announced it presagingly.