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prognosticates

  • present tense form
    of prognosticate (3rd person singular).
    prognosticate
    verb (used with object)
    to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.

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But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit.

From Time Magazine Archive

The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race.

From Time Magazine Archive

On rare occasions, of course, the Supreme Court has mocked prognosticates with a ruling contrary to all expert expectation.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he sees no particular thing which indicates or prognosticates any ill, he continues, for then the song of the limócon is good.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

An', son, hard as it is to credit, it comes to pass like Peets prognosticates.

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

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