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‖ progˈnosticon, n. Obs.
Also 7 pron-.
[L., a. Gr. προγνωστικόν.]
= prognostic n.1
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 97 Is not this perpetuall Prognosticon think you,..too durable, and ouer generall to be vniuersally true? 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §92 This luckie prognosticon, and ominous Meteor. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iv. i. (1676) 131/1 'Tis Rabbi Moses Aphorism, the prognosticon of Avicenna, Rhasis, Aëtius.
Hence † progˈnosticon v. = prognosticate v. 1.
1602in Archpriest Controv. (Camden) II. 238, I do hear that ffa. Walpole doth pronosticon that the priests..shalbe banished. I praye god it be not a pronosticon, but a practise. |