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Prognostic   Listen
noun
Prognostic  n.  
1.
That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction. "That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import."
2.
(Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
Synonyms: Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.





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"Prognostic" Quotes from Famous Books



... "superstition?" It is true, we now use it only in an evil sense, to express a belief in the agency of invisible, capricious, malignant powers, which fills the mind with fear and terror, and sees in every unexplained phenomenon of nature an omen, or prognostic, of some future evil. But this is not its proper and original meaning. Superstition is from the Latin superstitio, which means a superabundance of religion,[99] an extreme exactitude in religious observance. And this is precisely the sense in ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... according to the nature of the soil, the elevation or aspect of the land. Towards the south-east, on the Chinese frontier, the birch is encroaching on the indigenous species, and the natives regard this as a sure prognostic of the approaching ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various
... This prognostic, it will be seen, involves the removal of the immovable Asquith. But he must either consent to follow a plebiscite of his party or retire, like his doorkeeper, from Downing Street, under the intolerable burden of the suffragette. Much as his party honors and admires ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor
... old age has doubtless its curious affinities, its disguised identities, with these prognostic features and indications of his youth: and to our readers,—if we do ever get them to the goal, of seeing Friedrich a little with their own eyes and judgments,—there may be pleasant contrasts and comparisons of that ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Prognostic" :   predictive, auspice, prodigy, augury, omen, prognosticative, foreboding, portent, death knell, preindication, prognostication


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