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Definition of Prognostics
1. prognostic [n] - See also: prognostic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prognostics
Literary usage of Prognostics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"We should also note that, though the general principles of prognostics and the
broad features of the weather in each of these-shapes of isobars are the same ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"prognostics derived from the sun 77. The laying out of lands according to the
... prognostics derived from thunder 82. prognostics derived from clouds 83. ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Recipes from the ancients, prognostics from dreams, Charms, &c. moon, and from
the stars, are also to be found prognostics, fr°m thunder, from the age and ..."
4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Recipes from the ancients, prognostics from dreams, Charms, &c. moon, and from
the stars, are also to be found prognostics, ^rora thunder, from the age and ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"If, in a calm and smooth sea, we espy froth here and there, or white circles or
bubbles of water, they are prognostics of winds ; and if these presages be ..."
6. Meteors, Aërolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena: From the French of by Zurcher, Frederic Zurcher, Élie Margollé, William Lackland (1876)
"Foretelling the Weather. — Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod, Virgil.—prognostics furnished
by Animals.—prognostics from Plants, and from the State of the Sky. ..."
7. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VI ASTROLOGY AND WEATHER prognostics 1. I HAVE shown how the firmament,
and the twelve signs with the constellations arranged to the north and south ..."
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