prognosticate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prognosticate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for prognosticate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prognosticate v make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonym(s): predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" Synonym(s): bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prognosticate \Prognos"ticate\, 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. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. --Dryden. Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy.