Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-SAGE, v.t.

1. To forebode; to foreshow; to indicate by some present fact what is to follow or come to pass. A fog rising from a river in an autumnal morning presages a pleasant day. A physical phenomenon can not be considered as presaging an event, unless it has some connection with it in cause. Hence the error of vulgar superstition, which presages good or evil from facts which can have no relation to the future event.
2. To foretell; to predict; to prophesy. Wish'd freedom I presage you soon will find. – Dryden.