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

Prophetic; prognostic. [R.]

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

To utter predictions. Acts iii. 24.

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.

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.

A prediction. [Obs.] Shak.

To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of. Dryden.

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.

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

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 utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7.