different between prognosticate vs foretoken
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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foretoken
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foret?cn, foret?cen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- +? token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.
Noun
foretoken (plural foretokens)
- A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.
Etymology 2
From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foret?cnian (“to foreshow”).
Verb
foretoken (third-person singular simple present foretokens, present participle foretokening, simple past and past participle foretokened)
- (transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.
Derived terms
- foretokening
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