单词 | predicter |
释义 | predictern. = predictor n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > one who predicts forquidder?c1225 prophet?c1225 prognosticator1552 foreshower1555 foreteller1580 forepointer1587 avant-courier1611 predicter1641 predictor1641 prognostic1653 prognostes1654 prophecy-monger1655 foreboder1687 boder1692 prognosticant1880 1641 T. Heywood Life of Merlin i. 1 To Prophets there be severall attributes given, some are called prophetæ, some vates, others videntes: that is, Prophets, Predicters, and Seers. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 270 But 'tis high time for me to take off my hand from this Map of the Future State of England, that as a Predicter rather than a Prophet I have here so particularly delineated. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Foreteller Predicter, foreshower. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 113 Had the physiognomical predicter examined the two portraits..he might have augured a happier fate. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 2/1 Official predicter of the weather in the United States. 1941 W. C. Williams Broken Span (26) (title of poem) The predicter of famine. 1980 Observer 30 Mar. 11/3 The Financial Statement (known as the Red Book), which accompanies the Budget, is not usually regarded as an election predicter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1641 |
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