Prognosticate \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.
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I neither will nor can prognosticate
To the young gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden.
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Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
predict; prophesy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prognosticate
v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, call, forebode,
anticipate, promise]
2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
portend, auspicate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow,
augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
WordNet (r) 2.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "prognosticate":
adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope,
cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode,
forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell,
gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction,
make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict,
prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves,
read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance,
tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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