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noun

Prognostic n.

That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. "That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import."

(Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.

Synonyms: Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.

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Etymology of 'Prognostic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prognostic" Quotes from Famous Books

... frequently drowned in pans of water, milk, broth, or the like. Whatever is moist they affect; and therefore often gnaw holes in wet woollen stockings and aprons that are hung to the fire: they are the housewife's barometer, foretelling her when it will rain; and are prognostic sometimes, she thinks, of in or good luck; of the death of a near relation, or the approach of an absent lover. By being the constant companions of her solitary hours they naturally become the objects of her superstition. These crickets are not only very thirsty, but ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... the forest,—though you and I will never cast a line in it again,—two idle lads, in short (as we need not fear to acknowledge now), doing a hundred things that the Faculty never heard of, or else it had been the worse for us,—still it was your prognostic of your friend's destiny, that he was to be a writer of fiction." I have asked Mr. Bridge what gave him this impression of Hawthorne, and he tells me that it was an indescribable conviction, aroused by the whole drift of his friend's mind as he ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

Words linked to "Prognostic" : portent, omen, prodigy, augury, presage, foreboding, prophetic, auspice, predictive, foretoken, death knell, sign