The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prognosticate \Prog*nos"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Prognosticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prognosticating.] [See
Prognostic.]
To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to
prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
--Burke.
I neither will nor can prognosticate
To the young gaping heir his father's fate.
--Dryden.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; presage; predict; prophesy.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of prognosticate English)
Usage examples of "prognosticating".
But what may seem like telepathic prognosticating comes down to harvesting insider leaks.
Our methods of prognosticating the results of a change introduced into history are less than perfect.
But he might have sent himself a message from there, or maybe gotten it from some kind of prognosticating spirit.