单词 | prognosticative |
释义 | prognosticativeadj. Characterized by prognosticating; that prognosticates or predicts; indicative of a future event or outcome.In earliest use as postmodifier. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [adjective] > prognostic prognosticating1583 prognosticative1594 prognostic1603 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective] prognostical?a1450 prognostica1500 foreguessing1548 prognosticable1562 prophetical1567 prospective1581 prophetica1616 predictive1637 foretellinga1640 predictory1641 forespeaking1650 predictionala1661 prognosticatory1693 prognosticative1813 proleptic1858 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 180 A phisition..studied..all the rules and considerations of the art prognosticatiue [It. considerationi dell'arte de pronosticare; Sp. consideraciones del arte de prognosticar]. 1723 A. Smith Lives & Adventures Bayliffs 6 One Passage, which indeed had some relation prognosticative of what had really like to have prov'd his future Fate. a1761 S. Davies Sermons (1864) III. lxiv. 169 If these unusual works of God are also prognosticative;..then, to disregard them is..stupid. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 977 The comet..was thought prognosticative of the fall of Islamism. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 163 The opening a new volume of poems..accompanied by a yawn, prognosticative of the soporific nature of its contents. 1932 Polit. Sci. Q. 47 180 The diagram demonstrates no such prognosticative sensitivity, the plotted points being scattered over the chart with little rhyme or reason. 2000 Isis 91 776/1 No real distinction was made between what we would call the empirical and the prognosticative branches of stellar knowledge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594 |
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