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# prognosticate

«prognosticate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To foretell what will happen in the future, often from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (prognosticate, prognosticates, prognosticated, prognosticating) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

To foretell what will happen in the future, often from signs or special knowledge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, a wise seer prognosticates a great future for a hero

### examples

- The wise woman prognosticated a long winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/#x1)
- The seer prognosticated a great future for the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/#x2)
- Nobody can prognosticate the weather exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/#x3)
- The old men prognosticated rain from the red sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prognosticate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prognosticate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.