Meaning of PROGNOSTICATE
| Pronunciation: | | prâg'nâstu`keyt
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- [v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
- [v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
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| | Synonyms: | | anticipate, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise |
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| | See Also: | | bespeak, bet, calculate, foreshow, guess, hazard, indicate, outguess, point, prophesy, read, secondguess, signal, threaten, vaticinate, venture, wager | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Prog*nos"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Prognosticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prognosticating}.] [See
{Prognostic}.]
To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to
prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
--Burke.
I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young
gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
predict; prophesy.
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