prognosticate
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[edit] Etymology
From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.
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prognosticate (third-person singular simple present prognosticates, present participle prognosticating, simple past and past participle prognosticated)
- (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
- Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
- (transitive) To presage, betoken.
- The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
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| ME « | 15th c. | 16th c. | 17th c. | 18th c. | 19th c. | 20th c. | 21st c. |
- 1598 — William Shakespeare, Sonnet xiv
- But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And constant stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.'
- But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
- 1847 — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights ch. 7
- ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.
- 1915 — Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out ch. 2
- All old people and many sick people were drawn, were it only for a foot or two, into the open air, and prognosticated pleasant things about the course of the world.
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predict, foretell
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betoken
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prognosticate
- second-person plural present indicative of prognosticare
- second-person plural imperative of prognosticare
- Feminine plural of prognosticato
