Prognosticated

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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.


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