单词 | prognostication |
释义 | prognosticationn. 1. Medicine. a. A prognosis (now rare); the action or an act of making a prognosis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > prognosis prognosticationa1400 prognosis1650 prophasis1681 prognostic1753 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 173 (MED) Þe leche..schal alwei haue his owne pronosticacioun [L. in suo pronostico]. ?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe iii. iv. f. 56 The rules of Hipocrates, in his seconde boke of pronostications. 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. 118 But if the corrupted bone bee very large in compas, some counsail to leaue the cure to his prognostication. 1703 T. Hickes (title) Compleat treatise of urines, showing the right method of urinal prognostication. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 96 To regulate our judgment in prognostication, we must consider, what wounds are mortal, and what not. 1856 Spectator 18 Oct. 1109/2 The lectures, however, go further than the observation of disease with a view to the discovery of its nature, the methods of treating it, and the prognostication of its result. 1891 Dict. National Biogr. at John of St. Giles He was a very skilful physician, and..many wonderful stories were told of his prognostications and cures. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 18 Nov. 1282/1 The major histological types are separated by many mixed forms upon which prognostication is difficult. 2005 Neurologist 11 234 The judicious combination of these parameters with the findings on clinical examination to achieve accurate prognostication is discussed in this review. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] entacha1375 symptom1398 accidenta1400 showerc1400 prognostic?a1425 grudgingc1440 prognosticationc1475 grudge1562 symptomates1583 grutchinga1637 annotation1644 pathognomic1683 pathognomonic1704 prognosis1706 modality1911 c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 64v (MED) If þe pacient haue ony pronosticacioun of þe spasme..þanne þou schalt louse þilke wounde. 2. a. Frequently in plural. An act or instance of prognosticating; a prediction of a future event or outcome; a forecast, a prophecy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy prenostica1393 spaea1400 prognostication?a1425 prenostication?a1450 forespeaking1480 prenosticature1490 soothsaying1535 foredestiny?1549 foresaw1555 presage1560 abodement1565 prenotion1588 predict1609 prophetical1615 prognosis1649 conjectation1652 prognosticate1652 propheticism1684 prognostic1701 oracle1713 precantation1838 ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 111 (MED) Be the flyenge of foules, þei wolde tell vs the pronosticaciouns of thinges þat fell after. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 13 (MED) Many other tokyns and tailes..may well be demyd by varay demonstracions, and also pronosticacions to the Kyng, of his deth and murdur. ?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. a.ii Which pronostication one Paulinus making much of: expowned yt to signifie [etc.]. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 142 The Athenians for his divine prognostications erected him a statue with a golden tongue. 1672 T. Garencières (title) The true prophecies or prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, translated. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 187. ⁋8 This prognostication she was ordered to keep secret. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 23 In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs. Norris that she would be a good girl. View more context for this quotation 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxviii. 273 An outsider from an unknown stable may falsify all prognostications about a Derby favourite. 1905 Expositor Feb. 134 His gloomy prognostications of coming doom. 1968 ‘Q. Crisp’ Naked Civil Servant xi. 80 The cry went up that England was going to the bitches. The police, to show that they took this prognostication seriously, began to clean up the West End. 2002 Wired July 116/1 He's still convinced he was dead-on right in most of his prognostications. b. The action, practice, or fact of prognosticating; foreshowing, foretelling; prediction, prophecy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] prophecyc1330 prognosticationc1450 foresaying1548 foretelling1548 prediction1561 foresignifying1592 predict1609 prenunciation1623 bodement1826 predication1845 second-guessing1946 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] whatec1000 conjecturec1384 conjecturingc1384 augurya1413 augurationc1450 augurism1584 halsening1587 auguring1614 augurizing1652 conjectation1652 teratoscopy1665 prognostication1688 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 1288 (MED) Cyrce..Turnyd hir husbonde..In-to a nuttache, by whoos grete garrulacion, Thies augurers takes ofte prognosticacyon [L. augurium]. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 29 In pronostycacyon righte happy of their fleeynge and voyage. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. A vj b To note the Pronosticacion and former aduertence of his future successe in this hys enterprise. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 29 To foreshew these is no prophesie, but Prognostication. 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes iv. 169 The prognostication of weathers that may be made in the morning by their keeping within their hives, or flying early abroad to furnish themselves with wax or honey. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 127. ¶5 Others are of Opinion that it foretels Battel and Bloodshed, and believe it of the same Prognostication as the Tail of a Blazing Star. 1737 B. Franklin Let. 27 Sept. in Writings (1987) 272 I am willing to oblige them, with only a Taste of my Skill, which (if I have any Title to the Art of Prognostication) will certainly make them long for the whole. 1889 Dict. National Biogr. at Gibbons, Grinling Ashmole's skill in prognostication. 1904 J. Oman Vision & Authority iv. vii. 289 Prognostication beyond the limits of our duty we should discover to be only a profitless diversion. 1955 A. Powell Acceptance World (1977) iii. 81 It was a respectable piece of prognostication. 1995 Sci. Amer. Sept. 44/1 Given the pitfalls of prognostication, why would Scientific American dare to venture an issue on key technologies of the 21st century? c. A conjecture of some future event or outcome based on some supposed sign; a presentiment, a foreboding. Now rare or merged with sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > prediction based on sign or omen prenotion1588 prognostication1600 prognostic1618 prognosticate1652 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. iii. sig. Diiv Is't a Prognostication rap's him so? View more context for this quotation 1760 S. Johnson Idler 19 Jan. 17 Will Puzzle..foresees every Thing before it will happen, though he never relates his Prognostications till the Event is past. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. x. ii. 221 At his sight, her prognostication of ill became stronger! 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 49 A prognostication resulted in my mind, that we should all die of mere debility in these wilds. 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 307 The prognostications of evil thus formed very often bring about their own fulfilment. 1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 at Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon was able to assure the Cabinet that his own worst prognostications had been fulfilled. 3. Something that foretells or foreshadows an event; an indication of something about to happen; a sign, token, portent, omen. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. 1599 (MED) An ougli tokne..A contraire pronosticacioun, Shewed onto them of ther subuersioun. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 491 (MED) The pix..did falle, whiche was a pronosticacion [L. signum] contrary to the victory of the kynge. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 273 (MED) I trowe þat þe song of this brid be a pronosticacion and a bitokeni[n]g of yvel. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxi Which hideous tempest some said it was a very pronosticacion of trouble & hatred to come betwene princes. 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes i. xii. 61 Signes or prognostications of Constantius death. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. ii. 46 Nay, if an oyly Palme bee not a fruitfull Prognostication, I cannot scratch mine eare. View more context for this quotation 1850 W. E. Gladstone Remarks Royal Supremacy 61 Labouring to fix the position of the Church for our own time according to the conditions and the prognostications which the time itself not offers only but rather thrusts and forces on our view. 1921 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune 21 June 3/5 To see relatives, alive or dead, in fairly good health in your dream is a most favorable prognostication. 4. An astrological or astrometeorological forecast for the year, published in (or as) an almanac; (hence) an almanac containing this and other calendrical information. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > specific calendars Gregorian Calendarc1275 Julian Calendarc1275 fastia1387 almanacc1392 prognostication1486 shepherd's calendar1506 ephemeris1559 perpetual almanac?1566 perpetual calendar1577 ephemeris1647 primstaff1662 rim-stock1662 parapegma1671 Poor Robin1708 menologium1709 menologion1727 rune-staff1753 Liberian Calendar1754 parapegm1755 timetable1758 prognosticator1779 Hindu calendar1795 Moore's Almanac1806 Moorea1821 numeral1853 Advent calendar1867 paddywhack almanac1875 paddy1876 Islamic calendar1912 the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > judgement > [noun] > prognostication prognostication1486 prognosticator1601 1486 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 156 I..sent ye the letter of payment with a pronosticacioun & an almynake. 1516 (title) The prognosticacion of maister Iasper late..translated into ynglissh, to the honorre of te moost noble & victorious kynge Henry the viij by..Nicholas longwater. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. I7 The makers of prognostications, or almanacks for the yeere. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 142 The vsuall order annexed to the prognostications in placeing the faires of everye moneth together. 1643 in A. I. Ritchie Churches St. Baldred (1880) 63 For ane prognostication 8d. 1696 Lanark B. Rec. 261 That ye goe to..the wryters of the Prognosticatione at Edinburgh, Abbertein and Glasgow, that mark in ther prognostications, that the saids fairs are to be holden as follows [etc.]. 1799 H. Mitchell Scotticisms 68 A prognostication in Scotland, is, in England, called an almanack. 1896 Dict. National Biogr. at Roberts, James With R. Watkins he had a patent for almanacks and prognostications. 1953 J. Parr Tamburlaine's Malady Pref. p. vii Eustace F. Bosanquet has made an outstanding bibliographical study of Elizabethan almanacks and prognostications. 1986 Library Mar. ix/1 English printed almanacs and prognostications..to the year 1600. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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