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third-person singular simple present prognosticates, present participle prognosticating, simple past and past participle prognosticated
(transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill. quotations examples
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,And constant stars in them I read such artAs '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.'
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.
1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]
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.
1915 – Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out ch. 2
(transitive) To presage, betoken. examples