Crossword clues for prognostic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ?. See Prognosis.] Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, n. [L. prognosticum, Gr. ?: cf. F. pronostic, prognostic. See Prognostic, a.]
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That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.
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(Med.) A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
--Parr.Syn: Sign; omen; presage; token; indication.
Prognostic \Prog*nos"tic\, v. t. To prognosticate. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Medieval Latin prognosticus, from Greek prognostikos "foreknowing," from progignoskein (see prognosis). Related: Prognostical (1580s).
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction. n. 1 (context rare medicine English) prognosis 2 A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold. 3 A prediction of the future. 4 One who predicts the future.
WordNet
n. a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostication, prodigy]
adj. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions [syn: predictive, prognosticative]
Usage examples of "prognostic".
Encouraged by this favourable prognostic, Clovis girded on his armour, engaged in battle, and gained a complete victory.
Fathom still remained insensible, and the doctor pronounced a very unfavourable prognostic, while he ordered a pair of additional vesicatories to be laid upon his arms, and other proper medicines to be administered.
This prognostic filled him with the deepest inquietude, and all the reasonings of his daughter were insufficient to appease him.
William however baffled the prognostic, though his constitution had sustained such a rude shock that he himself perceived his end was near.
What an Atlantean progeny must be supposed to have then perished: including the motions of the spheres, all the conjunctions of the planets, the nature of the galaxy, and the prognostic generations of comets, and all that exists in the heavens or in the ether!
I put up at the Hotel de Grand, certainly without forming any prognostic respecting the future residence of the King.
With this account he mingled prognostics of the future, counselled Mr.
In what ambiguous terms had he couched his prognostics, of some mighty evil that awaited her!
Besides these airy prognostics, there were rumors of French fleets on the coast, and of the march of French and Indians through the wilderness, along the borders of the settlements.
He preserves, in all his mental vicissitudes, a loftiness of tone and a unity of intention, difficult to connect, even in fancy, with the real man, in whom the inherited superstitions and the prognostics of true science must often have clashed with each other.
Judging from the reports of the inspector of military schools, young Bonaparte was not, of all the pupils at Brienne in 1784, the one most calculated to excite prognostics of future greatness and glory.
Josephine was fully alive to the fatal prognostics which were to be deduced from this conjugal separation.
Yet, if ever fate whispered of coming disaster, such inaudible but not unfelt prognostics hovered around us.
The disappointment caused by its prognostic inaccuracy was as pathetic as the circumstances surrounding the sudden renown of leading futurologists were amusing.
His companion replied: The test of a doctor's prognostic acumen is to determine the time to give up medicinal and dietetic measures and empty the uterus, and overhesitancy to do this is condemnable, even though honorable.