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Prognosticate   Listen
verb
Prognosticate  v. t.  (past & past part. prognosticated; pres. part. prognosticating)  To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. "I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate."
Synonyms: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy.






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"Prognosticate" Quotes from Famous Books



... love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. Let him force his way into a peaceful home, and turn the whole house upside down by foretelling a funeral, or predicting a bankruptcy, or hinting at a coming disgrace, ...
— Told After Supper • Jerome K. Jerome

... with what safety assassins may attempt its awful head. Everything is secure, except what the laws have made sacred; everything is tameness and languor that is not fury and faction. Whilst the distempers of a relaxed fibre prognosticate and prepare all the morbid force of convulsion in the body of the state, the steadiness of the physician is overpowered by the very aspect of the disease.[22] The doctor of the Constitution, pretending to underrate what he is not able to contend with, shrinks ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... day strange and unexpected examples, both of His justice and His mercy; and therefore to define either is folly in man, and insolency even in the devils. Those acute and subtle spirits, in all their sagacity, can hardly divine who shall be saved; which if they could prognosticate, their labour were at an end; nor need they compass the earth, seeking whom they may devour. Those who, upon a rigid application of the law, sentence Solomon unto damnation, condemn not only him but themselves, and the whole world; for by the letter, ...
— Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' - an Appreciation • Alexander Whyte

... know, I'm sure. I was only wondering why you take everything so dreadfully in earnest. Now as far as your love tangle appears to be, I should prognosticate—hear that word, Polly? I am trying to act the wise magistrate for you—that there will be no suit for breach of promise, although there may be a case made out against you for alienating Tom's affections from Choko's Find Mine. On the other hand, you can serve ...
— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy



Words linked to "Prognosticate" :   omen, prognosticator, pretend, guess, outguess, foreshow, signal, portend, forebode, threaten, auspicate, foretell, wager, prefigure, second-guess, anticipate, bode, hazard, promise, predict, venture



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