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One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. Shak.

as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.

Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

One who predicts; a foreteller.

To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. Shak.

One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.

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. Macaulay.

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling. He hearkens after prophecies and dreams. Shak. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man. 2. Pet. i. 21.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.

The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.

Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in…