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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young
gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
predict; prophesy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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