prognosticate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.

verb

  1. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
    Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
    All old people and many sick people were drawn, were it only for a foot or two, into the open air, and prognosticated pleasant things about the course of the world. 1915 – Virginia Woolf, Voyage Out ch. 2
  2. (transitive) To presage, betoken.
    The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.

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