If something presages a situation or event, it is considered to be a warning or sign of what is about to happen. the dawn's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer's day. to be a sign that something is going to happen, especially something bad (presage (14-21 centuries), from praesagium, from praesagire, from sagire )
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment