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Definition of Presager
1. n. One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.
Definition of Presager
1. Noun. One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presager
1. one that presages [n -S] - See also: presages
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presager
Literary usage of Presager
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... always an eerie presager of death, when it occurs during Lent has the gloomy
significance of a double funeral. Peasant mothers in Ireland still carry ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Thus the "keen" of the Banshee, always an eerie presager of death, when it occurs
during Lent has the gloomy significance of a double funeral. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1853)
"... seems to resemble the wraith of the Scotish superstition, which is believed
to be sometimes the messenger of good and sometimes the presager of death. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... instead of soaring to heaven as the presager of liberty, was running about a
cock-pit, looking very much, like an old school-girl in pantalettes, ..."
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