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Prognostication   /prɑgnˌɑstəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Prognostication

noun
1.
A sign of something about to happen.  Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic.
2.
A statement made about the future.  Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction.
3.
Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source).  Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination.






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"Prognostication" Quotes from Famous Books



... Grace's prognostication was fulfilled to the letter. Mrs. Crosby clasped her in a tumultuous embrace the moment she entered the hall. Grace finally escaped from her, and was shown ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower

... cheek and the fire in his eye; the over stimulated and excited intellectual activity, the offspring of disease, mistaken by us for morning instead of sunset splendor, promise of future light and heat instead of prognostication of approaching darkness and decay. It certainly has always struck me as singular that Sterling, who in his life accomplished so little and left so little of the work by which men are generally pronounced to be gifted ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... the planets and the stars, but the moon has had a potent influence on medicine. For instance, mistletoe was to be cut with a golden knife, and when the moon was only six days old. Brand[82] quotes from The Husbandman's Practice, or Prognostication Forever, published in 1664, the following curious passage, "Good to purge with electuaries, the moon in Cancer; with pills, the moon in Pisces; with potions, the moon in Virgo; good to take vomits, the moon being in Taurus, Virgo, or the latter part of Sagittarius; to purge the head by sneezing, ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten

... of consideration for Edna; for Hatty, who was a self-tormentor by nature, could spin a whole web of worries out of a single thread; but Bessie never troubled herself with morbid after-thoughts. "Edna will be all right with me to-morrow," she said to herself; and she was right in her prognostication. ...
— Our Bessie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... Wilmot is out in his prognostication then," he observed, after a pause. "I remember, when a youngster under his command, hearing him repeatedly prophesy that a Delmont would revive the honour of his ancient house by naval fame. Poor Charles was ever his favourite ...
— The Mother's Recompense, Volume II. - A Sequel to Home Influence in Two Volumes • Grace Aguilar

... Madame Bo-Peep and her ranch manager were sitting on the east gallery. Teddy had been exhausting the science of prognostication as to the probabilities of a price of twenty-four cents for the autumn clip, and had then subsided into an anesthetic cloud of Havana smoke. Only as incompetent a judge as a woman would have failed to note long ago that at least a third of his salary must ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... two of his ribs and his fall, and thence he had gently canted over, and alighted upon the quarter-deck hammock-nettings, nearly knocked overboard the half-asleep main-topman who was perched up there as a look-out. He recovered, however, in two or three weeks, in spite of the doctor's prognostication. ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... abroad the news of that short furious quarrel and to prophesy that blood would be let in the adjusting of it. This prognostication the they based entirely upon their knowledge of the short Tressilian way. But it was a matter in which they were entirely wrong. It is true that Sir Oliver went galloping along that road that follows the Penryn river and that he pounded over the bridge in ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini



Words linked to "Prognostication" :   anticipation, foreboding, foretoken, auspice, meteorology, weather forecasting, extropy, fortune telling, statement, forecast, sign, divination, prognosticate, horoscope, death knell, prognosis, soothsaying, preindication, prophecy, foretelling, crystal gazing, augury, forecasting, fortunetelling, prevision, presage



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