Prognostic

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. prognwstiko`n. See
     {Prognosis}.]
     Indicating something future by signs or symptoms;
     foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms
     of a disease; prognostic signs.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, n. [L. prognosticum, Gr. ?: cf. F.
     pronostic, prognostic. See {Prognostic}, a.]
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     1. That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event
        may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen;
        hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
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              That choice would inevitably be considered by the
              country
              as a prognostic of the highest import. --Macaulay.
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     2. (Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and
        termination of a disease. --Parr.
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     Syn: Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, v. t.
     To prognosticate. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prognostic
       adj : of or relating to prediction; having value for making
             predictions [syn: {predictive}, {prognosticative}]
       n : a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen
           before going into battle" [syn: {omen}, {portent}, {presage},
            {prognostication}, {prodigy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "prognostic":
     apocalyptic, augural, auguring, augury, boding, divinatory,
     fatidic, forecasting, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing,
     foreshowing, foretelling, foretokening, forewarning,
     fortunetelling, haruspical, heavy with meaning, indicative,
     intuitive, mantic, meaningful, monitory, omen, oracular, portent,
     precursive, precursory, predictional, predictive, predictory,
     prefigurative, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory, presage,
     presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying,
     prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant,
     vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise