prognosticate

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WOTD – 22 April 2006

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

predict, foretell

betoken

prognosticate