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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREDICT', v.t. [L. proedictus, proedico; proe, before, and dico, to tell.] To foretell; to tell beforehand something that is to happen. Moses predicted the dispersion of the Israelites. Christ predicted the destruction of Jerusalem.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Latin praedictus, past participle of praedicere, from prae- pre- + dicere to say — more at diction Date: 1609 transitive verb to declare or indicate in advance; especially foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason intransitive verb to make a prediction Synonyms: see foretell • predictability noun • predictable adjective • predictive adjective • predictively adverb • predictor noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (often foll. by that + clause) make a statement about the future; foretell, prophesy. Derivatives: predictive adj. predictively adv. predictor n. Etymology: L praedicere praedict- (as PRAE-, dicere say)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Predict Pre*dict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Predicting.] [L. praedictus, p. p. of praedicere to predict; prae before + dicere to say, tell. See Diction, and cf. Preach.] To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet. Syn: To foretell; prophesy; prognosticate; presage; forebode; foreshow; bode.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Predict Pre*dict", n. A prediction. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(predicts, predicting, predicted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. If you predict an event, you say that it will happen. The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest... He predicted that my hair would grow back 'in no time'... It's hard to predict how a jury will react... 'The war will continue another two or three years,' he predicted. VERB: V n, V that, V wh, V with quote

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Foretell, prophesy, prognosticate, presage, augur, betoken, foretoken, portend, divine, forebode. See vaticinate.

Moby Thesaurus

adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, auspicate, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bet, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, conclude, conjecture, contemplate, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, envisage, envision, expect, forebode, forecast, foreglimpse, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretaste, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, gamble, gather, guess, hariolate, have a hunch, have an intimation, hazard a conjecture, hint, hope, infer, intimate, judge, lie ahead, look ahead, look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, near, omen, plan, plot, portend, prefigure, presage, presume, prognosticate, project, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, see ahead, see beforehand, shadow, shadow forth, soothsay, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, threaten, vaticinate