prognosticate

prognosticate
    v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
         of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell},
         {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate},
         {promise}]
    2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
       {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage},
       {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure},
       {forecast}, {predict}]
    

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.
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         I neither will nor can prognosticate
         To the young gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden.
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   Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
        predict; prophesy.
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43 Moby Thesaurus words for "prognosticate":
      adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope,
      cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode,
      forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell,
      gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction,
      make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict,
      prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves,
      read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance,
      tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate