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語源

From Medieval Latin prognosticare; see prognostic for more.

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/

動詞

prognosticate (三人称単数 現在形 prognosticates, 現在分詞 prognosticating, 過去形および過去分詞形 prognosticated)

1. (transitive) To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.

   Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.

   • 1598 – William Shakespeare, Sonnet xiv

     But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
     And constant stars in them I read such art
     As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
     If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
     Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
     'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.'

   • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], OCLC 156123328:

     ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.

   • 1915 – Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out ch. 2

     All old people and many sick people were drawn, were it only for a foot or two, into the open air, and prognosticated pleasant things about the course of the world.

2. (transitive) To presage, betoken.

   The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.

同意語

• presage, prophesy, foretell

関連する語

• prognosis
• prognostication