prognostaticadj.
Transmission error for pronostik prognostic adj. (see quot. a1500 at sense 1 at that entry for corrected reading).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective]
prognosticate?a1425
prognostical?a1450
prognostaticc1475
portentousc1487
presagiousc1487
prodigiousc1487
prodigial1548
portending1560
augural1568
presaging1592
ominous1593
boding1594
portentive1594
prognostic1603
presageful1606
prognosticous1607
ostentful1608
prognosticant1619
predictious1631
portentful1633
ominal1651
ominating1663
bodeful1813
portentious1863
c1475 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Harl.) in Select. Minor Poems (1840) 118 As pronostatike clerks beren witnesse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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