predictional

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prediction +‎ -al

Adjective[edit]

predictional (not comparable)

  1. Relating to prediction; prophetic; prognostic.
    • 1951, Alice A. Bailey, The Unfinished Autobiography of Alice A. Bailey, page 231:
      Predictional astrology is, to my personal point of view, both a menace and a handicap.
    • 1996, Sahotra Sarkar, Logic, Probability, and Epistemology: The Power of Semantics:
      It is obvious that with it the principle of induction would lose its predictional value.