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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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