prognosticatorn.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pronosticatoure, præsagus.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xlvii. 13 Let now the astrologers, the starre gasers, & pronosticatours stand vp, and saue thee from these things.

1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 60^v After he had asked hym whether this talke were true, and that the prognosticator had answered him that it was certaine, [etc.].

1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale sig. B3^v Auerring no Prognosticator lyes That sayes, some Great ones fall, their Riualls rise.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 268/1 The little Horn-Owle..termed Lich Owls..because Prognosticaters of Peoples death, when they scrietch about there Houses.

1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 71 The Gawlin is a Fowl less than a Duck; it is reckon'd a true Prognosticator of fair weather, for when it sings, fair..weather always follows.

a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 61 Mr. Brothers..was a melancholy prognosticator, and has had the fate of melancholy men.

1852 S. R. Maitland Ess. 207 To speak of Merlin and a train of less important prognosticators.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Sept. 3/3 A sensitive, living prognosticator, like the ‘Abrus precatorius’, is preferable to the inanimate barometric weather gauges, on account of the vital force which dwells in it.

1904 Collier's 7 May 5/2 When Bismarck was succeeded by the young and self-willed Kaiser, many prognosticators foresaw in the change an ebb in German influence.

1965 Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 24 June 5/3 The automated weather prognosticator at the Central Trust Tower in downtown Cincinnati.

1992 J. Dominguez & V. Robin Your Money or your Life ix. 307 Prognosticators might be right when they warned that he would need twice the income in ten or twenty years to have the same buying power.

1601 J. Chamber Treat. against Iudicial Astrol. i. 2 Astrologers, prognosticators, almanack-makers.

1634 J. Pell (title) The Eclipse Prognosticator.

1696 T. Tryon Misc. iv. 99 Our Annual Prognosticators are generally Men of little Learning.

1734 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1190 My Loss of Honour as a Prognosticator, cannot afford me so much Mortification.

1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 130 Almost every supposed Prognosticator has contradicted itself.

1870 Times 5 Feb. 11 It [sc. Candlemas Day] is a day from which the old prognosticator dated his forecast of the coming season.

1960 S. K. Heninger Handbk. Renaissance Meteorol. 218 The weather predictions of the astrologers were widely sold in the form of annual forecasts... Some of the most popular prognosticators in England were Anthony Ascham, Leonard Digges, John Securis, [etc.].

1997 C. Hill Intellect. Origins Eng. Rev. Revisited 47 The prophetical element in almanacs had always worried governments and conservatives. One lucky prognosticator came perilously near to forecasting the date of Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603.