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prediction, n.|prɪˈdɪkʃən|
[ad. L. prædictiōn-em a saying before, premising, prediction, n. of action f. prædīcĕre to predict. Cf. F. prédiction (16th c.).]
1. a. The action of predicting or foretelling future events; also, an instance of this, a prophecy.
1561Fulke (title) Antiprognosticon, that is to saye, Inuectiue agaynst the uaine and vnprofitable Predictions of the Astrologians, as Nostrodame, etc., translated out of Latin. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 1100 Aratus made no account of their prediction. 1625Bacon Ess., Prophecies (Arb.) 537 Dreames, and Predictions of Astrologie. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts v. (1739) 62 He was born at Bethlehem according to the Prediction of the Prophet Micah. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 572 The prince..predicted that Amsterdam would raise some difficulty. The prediction proved correct. 1861Nat. Rev. Oct. 430 An author who evidently identifies prophecy with prediction.
†b. Applied to a portent or omen. Obs. rare.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. ii. 28 Yet Cæsar shall go forth: for these Predictions Are to the world in generall, as to Cæsar.
†2. A statement made beforehand. Obs. rare.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I) 38, I hope it shall not be said..that you can accuse his predictions, as erroneous, who never falsified his word with you.
3. attrib. and Comb., as prediction paradox, prediction study, prediction table, prediction value.
1952Mind LXI. 265, I hope Mr. O'Connor will not mind my giving his paradox the new and somewhat more appropriate name of ‘the prediction paradox’.
1950S. A. Stouffer Measurement & Prediction vi. 173 Each variable in a prediction study plays one of two possible roles. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. v. 70 Is it possible to work out a grand prediction table showing what treatment each individual should have?
1961J. B. Wilson Reason & Morals iii. 144 Many scientists now use the prediction-value of scientific statements as virtually the only test of their truth.
Hence † preˈdiction v. (trans.) Obs. nonce-wd. = predict v.; † preˈdictional a. Obs., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of prediction.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Oxford. (1662) ii. 329, I conceive it properly to intend the contests betwixt Scholars and Scholars, which were observed predictional, as if their animosities were the Index of the Volume of the Land. 1665R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales (Chaucer Soc.) 30 What this deep Soothsayer prediction'd before in jest, he now cals for in earnest. |