Prognosticate

3 definitions found

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

  Prognosticate \Prog*nos"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Prognosticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prognosticating}.] [See
     {Prognostic}.]
     To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to
     prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
     --Burke.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           I neither will nor can prognosticate
           To the young gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
          predict; prophesy.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prognosticate
       v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
            of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {call}, {forebode},
             {anticipate}, {promise}]
       2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
           {portend}, {auspicate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow},
           {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}]

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

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "prognosticate":
     adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope,
     cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode,
     forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell,
     gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction,
     make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict,
     prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves,
     read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance,
     tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate