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Definition of Prognostication
1. Noun. A sign of something about to happen. "He looked for an omen before going into battle"
Generic synonyms: Augury, Foretoken, Preindication, Sign
Specialized synonyms: Auspice, Foreboding, Death Knell
Derivative terms: Omen, Ominous, Ominous, Portend, Portentous, Portentous, Presage, Prodigious, Prognostic, Prognosticate
2. Noun. A statement made about the future.
Generic synonyms: Statement
Specialized synonyms: Extropy, Fortunetelling, Horoscope, Meteorology, Weather Forecasting, Forecast, Prognosis, Divination, Prophecy
Derivative terms: Forecast, Foretell, Prognosticate
3. Noun. Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source).
Generic synonyms: Anticipation, Prediction, Prevision
Specialized synonyms: Crystal Gazing, Divination, Foretelling, Fortune Telling, Soothsaying
Derivative terms: Prognosticate, Prophetic, Prophetical, Vaticinate, Vaticinate
Definition of Prognostication
1. n. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.
Definition of Prognostication
1. Noun. A statement about or prior knowledge of the future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prognostication
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prognostication
Literary usage of Prognostication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"... and prognostication, . . . Imprinted at London by Richard Watkins and lames
Roberts ... difference from ve : with a prognostication ... by Walter Gray . ..."
2. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"In the light of this distinction we cannot fail to see that prognostication
belongs rather to the earlier and cruder forms of Hebrew prophecy ..."
3. The Writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1905)
"A TRUE prognostication, FOR 1739' COURTEOUS READERS, Having consider'd the infinite
Abuses arising from the false prognostications published among you, ..."
4. Medical Thermometry and Human Temperature by Edward Seguin (1876)
"In typhoid fever, if no remission appear in the latter part < the first septenary,
the prognostication is grave (Thierfelder). A great excursus between the ..."
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