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Prognostic

noun
1.
A sign of something about to happen.  Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication.






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"Prognostic" Quotes from Famous Books



... been reading one of those prognostic articles on international politics which every now and then appear in the reviews. Why I should so waste my time it would be hard to say; I suppose the fascination of disgust and fear gets the better of me in a moment's ...
— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing

... practise the same folly. One day, meditating on this melancholy subject, I exercised myself in throwing stones at the trunks of trees, with my usual dexterity, that is to say, without hitting any of them. In the height of this charming exercise, it entered my mind to make a kind of prognostic, that might calm my inquietude; I said, "I will throw this stone at the tree facing me; if I hit my mark, I will consider it as a sign of salvation; if I miss, as a token of damnation." While I said this, I threw the stone with a trembling hand ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau



Words linked to "Prognostic" :   auspice, prognosis, foreboding, foretoken, sign, death knell, omen, prophetic, augury, preindication, prophetical



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