Verb

(en verb)

To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.

*1590 , E. Daunce, A Briefe Discourse on the Spanish State , 40

*:After he had renounced his father]]s bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of , was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil . which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the [[event, euent the same predicted .

:2000 , , (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) , xiii.

::Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.

:2012 , (Jeremy Bernstein), " A Palette of Particles" in (American Scientist) , Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146

::The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.

To imply.

*1886 , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 177. 338

*:It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.

To make predictions.

*1652 , J. Gaule, ???-?????? the mag-astro-mancer , 196

*:The devil can both predict and make predictors.

(transitive, military, rare) To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.

*1943 , L. Cheshire, Bomber Pilot , iii. 57

*:They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.

Verb

(en verb)

To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

to suspect the presence of disease

* Milton

From her hand I could suspect no ill.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected , but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}

To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

to suspect the truth of a story

(Addison)

To believe (someone) to be guilty.

To have suspicion.

(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.