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prognosticable, a.|prɒgˈnɒstɪkəb(ə)l|
[f. L. prognostic-āre to prognosticate + -able.]
1. Capable of being prognosticated.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. viii. 317 Causes..which cannot indeed be regular, and therefore their effects not prognosticable like Ecclipses. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 194 It is for any prognosticator to know any thing that is prognosticable. 1881A. S. Herschel in Nature 24 Feb. 384/1 One of its most marked, although not at all one of its most prognosticable, properties.
†2. Capable of prognosticating. Obs. rare—1.
1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Dial. Soarnes & Chir. 19 b, As in the one, be manifest tokens of death: so in the other be prognosticable signes. |