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A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.

Backward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Posterior.

A prognostic; an omen. [Obs.] Gower.

ing something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.

re; 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.

pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.

The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

y; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics. Hook.