prognosticate
verb (used with object)
to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
will prognosticate
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future tenseof prognosticate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The neighbors have the opinion that a sick person's shirt thrown into the well will prognosticate the outcome of the disease; if it floats the sick one will recover, if it sinks he will die.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
