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dicating 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.

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.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

rology; 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.

Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.

To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11.

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

re to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

Prognostic; previous omen. Sir P. Sidney.