different between prognosticate vs envisage

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????n?st?ke?t/

Verb

prognosticate (third-person singular simple present prognosticates, present participle prognosticating, simple past and past participle prognosticated)

1. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.

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

   • 1598 – William Shakespeare, Sonnet xiv

     But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
     And constant stars in them I read such art
     As '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.'

   • ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.

   • 1915 – Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out ch. 2

     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.

2. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

   The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.

Synonyms

• presage, prophesy, foretell

Related terms

• prognosis
• prognostication

Translations

Italian

Verb

prognosticate

1. second-person plural present indicative of prognosticare
2. second-person plural imperative of prognosticare
3. feminine plural of prognosticato

English

Etymology

From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?z?d?/, /?n?v?z?d?/

Verb

envisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)

1. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
   • 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

     From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• envisage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• envisage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Verb

envisage

1. first-person singular present indicative of envisager
2. third-person singular present indicative of envisager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
5. second-person singular imperative of envisager

Anagrams

• vengeais