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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



... ever-changing course of things run a perpetual circle." ... She read the phrase and then reflected, the cause being a continued prognostication, beginning and ending as it had done the day before, to-morrow and forever, maybe, of her own ailment, a paradoxical malady, being nothing more nor less than a pronounced case of malnutrition of the soul, a broken heart-cord, aggravated by a total collapse of that portion ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

... True prognostication! But skilful natation Despite some "anxiety" and much "fatigue," Has "pulled SOLLY through" to his "pardner's elation." Together they've plodded o'er many a league Of big tumbling billows. See those in the rear! They were ridden with skill, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 8, 1891 • Various

... loaned their lamps, and the brakeman had hung out his red lantern in token of welcome and cheer. It was, however, mistaken by some of the guests as a signal of danger, and they were wary of their steps lest they be ditched. Mrs. Hudgers ventured the awful prognostication that "mebby some of them Jenkins brats had gone and got another of them ...
— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... look forward and to foresee such opposite results would perhaps need a prophetic eye, an accurate estimate of human nature, and a very nice balancing of cause and effect. It could be the prognostication only of a wise, judicious, and observant mind. But we are now looking, not forwards, but backwards, and in looking backwards the case is reduced to the greatest simplicity, so that even a child can understand; and "he ...
— The Purpose of the Papacy • John S. Vaughan

... The only other prognostication that appears to emerge is the probable predominance in a Home Rule Ireland of the present Ulster Unionist party. That group is likely, for many reasons, to retain its solidarity after ours has been dissipated. Should that prove to be the ...
— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle


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