different between prognosticate vs premonish
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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premonish
English
Verb
premonish (third-person singular simple present premonishes, present participle premonishing, simple past and past participle premonished)
- (obsolete, transitive) To warn of something in advance.
Related terms
- premonition
Anagrams
- morphines, permonish
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