Prognosticate Definition

prŏg-nŏstĭ-kāt
prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating
verb
prognosticated, prognosticates, prognosticating
To foretell or predict, esp. from signs or indications.
Webster's New World
To foreshadow; portend.
Urban renewal that prognosticates a social and cultural renaissance.
American Heritage
To indicate beforehand.
Webster's New World

To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.

Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
Wiktionary

To presage, betoken.

The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Prognosticate

  • Middle English pronosticaten from Medieval Latin prognōsticāre prognōsticāt- from Latin prognōsticum sign of the future from Greek prognōstikon from neuter of prognōstikos foreknowing prognostic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.

    From Wiktionary

Prognosticate Sentence Examples

  • We find moreover as emi-scientific conception of the basis of divination; the whole of nature is linked together; just as the variations in the height of a column of mercury serve to foretell the weather, so the flight of birds or behaviour of cattle may help to prognosticate its changes; for the uncultured it is merely a step to the assumption that animals know things which are hidden from man.

  • The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

  • The Polynesians set up sticks to see if the warriors they stood for were to fall in battle; on Hallowe'en in our own country the behaviour of nuts and other objects thrown into the fire is held to prognosticate the lot of the person to whom they have been assigned.

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