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

That may be predicted.

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

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

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

One who predicts; a foreteller.

Predictive. [R.] Fuller.

To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

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.

mens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity. A cunning man did calculate my birth. Shak.

State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.

An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North.

To foretell; to predict; to presage. Darest thou . . . divine his downfall Shak.

One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.

To judge or guess; to predict the result of, as by the aid of dope. [Slang]

The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.