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"Prognosticate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Arms and the man" was Virgil's strain; But we propose in lighter vein To browse a crop from pastures (Green's) Of England's Evolution scenes. Who would from facts prognosticate The future progress of this State, Must own the chiefest fact to be Her escalator is ...
— A Humorous History of England • C. Harrison
... It is safe to prognosticate, from the course of the history up to this point, that the subject of the conduct of worship will become more and more seriously a subject of study in the American church in all its divisions; that the discussions thereon arising ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
... undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and scaling her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of ...
— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter
... said, that the sagacity of some dogs has led them to prognosticate the fatal termination of disease. "Whilst I lived at Ripon," says a learned doctor, "I took notice of a little dog, of a chestnut colour, that very often boded the death of sick persons, without being once, for aught I could learn, mistaken. Every time he barked ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13 Issue 367 - 25 Apr 1829 • Various |
Words linked to "Prognosticate" : foretell, venture, forebode, bespeak, vaticinate, omen, hazard, prognostication, foreshadow, threaten, betoken, predict, read, calculate, prognosticator, bet, indicate, wager, foreshow, second-guess, point, outguess, signal, call, prophesy, prognosticative, auspicate, prognosis, guess, augur, forecast, pretend, bode, presage, prefigure, portend |
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