[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prognosticate \prognos"ticate\, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   prognosticated; p. pr.  vb. n. prognosticating. see
   prognostic.
   to indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to
   prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
   --burke.
   1913 webster

         i neither will nor can prognosticate
         to the young gaping heir his father's fate. --dryden.
   1913 webster

   syn: to foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage;
        predict; prophesy.
        1913 webster
see also:
prognosticated prognosticating prognostic 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

prognosticate
     v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "call the outcome
          of an election" syn: predict, foretell, call, forebode,
           anticipate, promise
     2: indicate by signs; "these signs bode bad news" syn: bode,
         portend, auspicate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow,
         augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
see also:
predict foretell call forebode anticipate promise 
bode portend auspicate omen presage 
betoken foreshadow augur prefigure forecast 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 moby thesaurus words for "prognosticate":
   adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope,
   cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode,
   forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell,
   gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction,
   make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict,
   prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves,
   read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance,
   tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate

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