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.
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