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Word Meanings - PROGNOSTICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak.

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  • RECKON
    reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
  • RECKONER
    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • COMPUTATION
    1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
  • CONJECTURER
    One who conjectures. Hobbes.
  • PROOF-PROOF
    Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
  • CALCULATION
    1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
  • PRESAGE
    1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton. 2. Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught
  • PREDICTIONAL
    Prophetic; prognostic.
  • PRESAGEMENT
    1. The act or art of presaging; a foreboding. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which is presaged, or foretold. "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.
  • FORETELLER
    One who predicts. Boyle.
  • PRESAGEFUL
    Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
  • CONJECTURE
    An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
  • VATICINATION
    Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.
  • PROOF
    A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
  • FORETELL
    To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;
  • PROPHECY
    A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah. 2 Chron. ix. 29. 3. Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction. (more info) 1. A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an
  • PREMONSTRATION
    A showing beforehand; foreshowing.
  • FOREBODEMENT
    The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
  • AUGURY
    1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination. 2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself
  • DIVINATION
    1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
  • MISCOMPUTATION
    Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
  • SELF-REPROOF
    The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
  • HIGH-PROOF
    1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
  • PLOT-PROOF
    Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
  • DISPROOF
    A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
  • DEAD-RECKONING
    See A
  • BULLET-PROOF
    Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
  • STARPROOF
    Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
  • WATERPROOF
    Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
  • BOMBPROOF
    Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.
  • WEATHERPROOF
    Proof against rough weather.

 

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