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The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.

d Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

One who predicts.

To foretell; to predict. [Obs.] My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass. Beau. & Fl.

A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] Camden. Huloet.

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

One who predicts. Boyle.

The science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth. Jhonson.

ate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.

zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.

practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.

2. (a) An unusually large success in an enterprise, either unexpected or unpredictable, esp. one providing a great financial benefit. hit the jackpotto receive an unexpectedly large (or the largest possible) benefit from an enterprise.

o divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise. The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened the tragical contents. Sir W. Scott.

s used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.

Made or done after the date assigned. Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass. Fuller.

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

re 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.

The art and science of predicting in medicine. Laycock.