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predictingly (comparative more predictingly, superlative most predictingly)

1. In a predicting manner.
   • 1824, T. W. C. Edwards, Ευριπιδου Αλκηστις. The Alcestis of Euripides, Literally Translated into English Prose; from the Text of Monk: with the Ooriginal Greek, the Metres, the Order, and English Accentuation. To Which Are Subjoined Numerous Explanatory Notes. For the Use of Students., London: Matthew Iley, pages 15:

     Apollo. [Predictingly.] Yet assuredly thou wilt relax, although thou art mighty stubborn: such a man will come to the house of Phérës, Eurýstheus having sent him after a chariot of horses from the wintry regions of Thrace, who in fact, after being-received-a-guest in this house of Admétus, shall by force take this woman away from thee: and there will not be any obligation to thee from us,—but nevertheless thou wilt do this, and wilt be hated by me.

   • 1838, The Diary of a Child, pages 249–250:

     I remained sitting in thought, there came from out the far wood of Vollraz something white; it was a rider upon a white horse; the animal looked like a spirit, his soft canter sounded to me predictingly;

   • 1845 February, “The Painted Window for the Calcutta Cathedral”, in The Christian Observer, number 86, London: […] J. Hatchard and Son, page 107:

     We will add what we said predictingly on this very subject in our Number for June 1837, as it expresses our opinion still; only unhappily confirmed by recent experience.

   • 1850 April, D. Oliphant, “Popular Christianity—or The Christian Religion Counterfeited”, in The Witness of Truth, volume V, number 4, Oshawa, page 78:

     The time came for the “traitors,” the “heady,” the “high-minded,” the “proud” of whom Paul predictingly spake to the evangelist at Ephesus.

   • 1960, William F. Lynch, “The Catholic Idea”, in Walter J. Burghardt and William F. Lynch, editors, The Idea of Catholicism: An Introduction to the Thought and Worship of the Church, Meridian Books, Inc., LCCN 60-6768, page 60:

     Of Christ Isaiah said predictingly: “There is no beauty in him, nor comeliness; and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity; and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . . We have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted” (Is 53:2-4, Douay).

   • 1982 December 26, Mike Royal, “Hey Tom!”, in Tampa Tribune and Times, sixteenth year, number 52, Tampa, Fla., page 13-D:

     Sir, you are a prophet. Have you ever before been so predictingly on target?

   • 1997 March 28, Satoru Mizouchi, Control device for display device‎^[1], US Patent 5,717,413:

     […] means for predictingly calculating a gazing position of said observer based on said moving velocity and said moving direction.