The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predict \Pre*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Predicting.] [L. praedictus, p. p. of praedicere to predict; prae before + dicere to say, tell. See Diction, and cf. Preach.] To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
Syn: To foretell; prophesy; prognosticate; presage; forebode; foreshow; bode.
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vb. (present participle of predict English)
Usage examples of "predicting".
But, nevertheless, though we grant that they do not speak as they ought, and that we ought to accept as the proper form of speech that employed by the philosophers in predicting those things which they think they discover in the position of the stars, how comes it that they have never been able to assign any cause why, in the life of twins, in their actions, in the events which befall them, in their professions, arts, honors, and other things pertaining to human life, also in their very death, there is often so great a difference, that, as far as these things are concerned, many entire strangers are more like them than they are like each other, though separated at birth by the smallest interval of time, but at conception generated by the same act of copulation, and at the same moment?
It's a mathematical way of analyzing human society that ends by predicting the future.
It was not precisely a fortune-telling device but a theory as to ways of predicting general trends in future human history.
I have been told that your new science bears the promise of predicting the future.
Don't you suppose they know that your psychohistory has been predicting this for years?
It's the very thing you've been predicting for so long that's stopping you at last.
I don't know anything about it except the name and the fact that you go around predicting the end of the Empire or something like that.
I've been predicting the breakdown of the Empire for nearly forty years and now that it's come, psychohistory breaks down with it.
It’s a mathematical way of analyzing human society that ends by predicting the future.
Don’t you suppose they know that your psychohistory has been predicting this for years?
It’s the very thing you’ve been predicting for so long that’s stopping you at last.
I don’t know anything about it except the name and the fact that you go around predicting the end of the Empire or something like that.
I’ve been predicting the breakdown of the Empire for nearly forty years and now that it’s come, psychohistory breaks down with it.
There is, however, no way of predicting what form the impairment will take, nor what compensation will be effected.
His friends, however, compared him to Cassandra, predicting evils which would only be believed when they came home to men’s hearths, and stared them in the face at their own boards.