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prognosticate
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)
- (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.'
- But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
- ...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.
- (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
- second-person plural present indicative of prognosticare
- second-person plural imperative of prognosticare
- feminine plural of prognosticato
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foreknow
English
Etymology
From Middle English forknowen, equivalent to fore- +? know. Replaced Old English f?rwitan, f?rewitan (“to foreknow”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f???n??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f???no?/
Verb
foreknow (third-person singular simple present foreknows, present participle foreknowing, simple past foreknew, past participle foreknown)
- To have knowledge of beforehand.
- God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
- 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confe??ion of the Fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Ro?ie Cro?s; with a Præface annexed thereto, and a ?hort Declaration of their Phy?icall Work (London, Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black ?pread Eagle at the We?t end of Pauls), pages 1–2 of “The Epi?tle to the Wi?e and Under?tanding Reader”
- Wi?dom…is to a man an infinite Trea?ure, for ?he is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ?he is the Brightne?s of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Maje?ty of God, and an Image of his Goodne?s; ?he teacheth us Soberne?s and Prudence, Righteou?ne?s and Strength; ?he under?tands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ?entences; ?he foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ?hall happen in time to come.
Related terms
- foreknowledge
Translations
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