Word Meanings - UNPREDICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNPREDICT)

• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• PREDICTIONAL
  Prophetic; prognostic.
• RETRACTILE
  CApable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• RETRACTIBLE
  Retractable.
• RETRACT
  handle again, reconsider, retract, fr. retrahere, retractum, to draw 1. To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle. 2. Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• RETRACTIVE
  Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.
• RETRACTION
  1. The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws. 2. The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation. Other
• RETRACTATION
  The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
• RETRACTATE
  To retract; to recant.
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• FALSIFY
  To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. 2. To counterfeit; to
• RETRACTABLE
  Capable of being retracted; retractile.
• PREDICTION
  The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy. The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon. Syn. -- Prophecy; prognostication; foreboding; augury; divination; soothsaying; vaticination.
• IRRETRACTILE
  1. Not retractile. 2. Not tractile or ductile. Sir W. Hamilton.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.