Prog*nos"ti*cate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Prognosticated (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Prognosticating.] [See
Prognostic.] To indicate as 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.
Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
predict; prophesy.