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Prognosticate   /prˌɑgnˈɑstəkˌeɪt/   Listen
Prognosticate

verb
(past & past part. prognosticated; pres. part. prognosticating)
1.
Make a prediction about; tell in advance.  Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise.
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"Prognosticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... you till I could tell you something of the success of the book, and could prognosticate with some probability whether it should be finally damned to oblivion or should be registered in the temple of immortality. Though it has been published only a few weeks, I think there appear already such strong symptoms that I can almost venture ...
— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... paleness of the sun sum Vandal. (l. ii. c. 14) is applied by Theophanes (p. 158) to a different year. Note: See Lydus de Ostentis, particularly c 15, in which the author begins to show the signification of comets according to the part of the heavens in which they appear, and what fortunes they prognosticate to the Roman empire and their Persian enemies. The chapter, however, is imperfect. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... trifles, and these diplomats, with their consequential hair-splitting, already seem to me more ridiculous than the Member of the Second Chamber in the consciousness of his dignity. If foreign events do not take place, and those we over-smart Diet people can neither direct nor prognosticate, I know quite definitely now what we shall have accomplished in one, two, or five years, and am willing to effect it in twenty-four hours if the others will but be truthful and sensible for a single day. I have never doubted that they all use water for cooking; ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke



Words linked to "Prognosticate" :   threaten, prognostication, indicate, guess, prophesy, bespeak, prognosticator, bet, calculate, wager, signal, point, venture, vaticinate, pretend, prognosticative, hazard, outguess, prognosis, read, foreshow, second-guess



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