Posted on 03/30/2015 5:16:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 3/30/15
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
presage; noun, verb
noun 1. a presentiment or foreboding.
2. something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication.
3. prophetic significance; augury.
4. foresight; prescience.
5. Archaic. a forecast or prediction. verb (used with object), presaged, presaging. 6. to have a presentiment of.
7. to portend, foreshow, or foreshadow: "The incidents may presage war."
8. to forecast; predict. verb (used without object), presaged, presaging. 9. to make a prediction.
10. Archaic. to have a presentiment
Etymology: 1350-1400; Middle English (noun) < Middle French presage < Latin praesāgium presentiment, forewarning, equivalent to praesāg (us) having a foreboding ( prae- pre- + sāgus prophetic; cf. sagacious ) + -ium -ium
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Here is my example with WFTD.
will it ever be warm again?
Presage, I used to use basil in my baked Mediterranean chicken recipe.
knew it! A+++ ; )
Taxpayers are getting the message
Of what the Obama years presage
Huge deficit spending
Chinese mostly lending
Recessage might morph to depressage
excellent!!! A++++
have the books, started Wolf Hall, intend to see it on Broadway in May! thanks for the heads up on the TV show.
A++++
I do believe that y'all have had a harder time of it this winter than we have (midwest). Virtually ALL of our snow is gone. We haven't had any new snow for a long time, while my daughter in VA has had 10 snow days this winter. We've had ONE -- on a Sunday. No school cancelled.
it literally had just left the stage in London two weeks before we arrived last October, I had really wanted to see it there. The play is 6 hours, so it’s either an all afternoon and evening affair or you can see it on consecutive nights. Not sure which we will do.
Thursday
Ugh. Who's directing it, Peter Jackson?
well realize that the wimpy Virginians cancel much quicker than the hardy Midwesterners. We have not had snow in awhile now, but the temps are just taking forever to get to the WARM stage. we have a random warm day here and there, but getting up and leaving the house when it’s in the 30s is getting old.
Again I want to remind everyone that I have had a puppy to train during the course of this ridiculously cold winter. But on Friday I had the guy out to re-flag the yard and to train DaVinci to the electric fence. Because he is a genius dog [both the trainer and the fence guy have commented on how smart he is; xshub rolls his eyes at me when I tell him but honestly neither of these guys is given to false flattery. In fact the trainer is often looking to tell me that DaVinci has a screw loose! so I am guessing that he has that genius-madman thing going on, LOL!] he literally had one brush with the lowest of the low level shock and wanted no part of the flags. Did not even remotely get near them. Yesterday the neighbors had some sort of family gathering with lots of kids in the yard playing with a ball etc. and he looked LONGINGLY at them, wishing he could join them, but made no attempt to get anywhere near the flags.
better be no hobbits in it!
ok weatherman, will I need a jacket/sweater for Easter Sunday? I just ordered one, bc I am guessing that I will.
The only downside to this diet is that I must now buy new clothes for events, when I could just reach into my wardrobe. I pull something out and try it on, it just hangs there looking huge. The upside is I get to buy new clothes.
tell me about it. I literally have had to replace two seasons worth of clothes. every.single.thing. even the stuff I got at the end of the summer season last year is too big for me now. it’s an expensive proposition, but worth it.
A nice sweater is always an option. Might be chilly.
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