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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROGNOS'TICATE, v.t. [from prognostic.]
1. To foreshow; to indicate a future event by present signs. A clear sky at sunset prognosticates a fair day.
2. To foretell by means of present signs; to predict.
I neither will nor can prognosticate
To the young gaping heir his father's fate.

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

transitive verb (-cated; -cating) Date: 15th century 1. to foretell from signs or symptoms ; predict 2. presage Synonyms: see foretell • prognosticative adjective • prognosticator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 (often foll. by that + clause) foretell; foresee; prophesy. 2 (of a thing) betoken; indicate (future events etc.). Derivatives: prognosticable adj. prognostication n. prognosticative adj. prognosticator n. prognosticatory adj. Etymology: med.L prognosticare (as PROGNOSTIC)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Foretell, predict, prophesy. 2. Foreshadow, indicate, portend, augur, foreshow, foretoken, betoken, forebode, presage.

Moby Thesaurus

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