prognosticate

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From Old Italian prognosticare, from Latin prognosticum (-con), from Ancient Greek προγνωστικόν (prognostikon), neutral of προγνωστικός (prognostikos) "foreknowing, prescient, prognostic", from prefix πρό- (pro-) + γνωστικός (gnostikos) "of or for knowing, good at knowing", from γιγνώσκω (gignosko) "to learn to know, to perceive, to mark, to learn".

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Infinitive
to prognosticate

Third person singular
prognosticates

Simple past
prognosticated

Past participle
prognosticated

Present participle
prognosticating

to prognosticate (third-person singular simple present prognosticates, present participle prognosticating, simple past and past participle prognosticated)

  1. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
    Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
  2. (transitive) To presage, betoken.
    The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.

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  • 1598William 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.'
  • 1847Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights ch. 7
    ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.
  • 1915Virginia 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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prognosticate

  1. Second-person plural present tense of prognosticare.
  2. Second-person plural imperative of prognosticare.
  3. Feminine plural of prognosticato.