Verb

(prepar)

To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.

* Bible, Psalms cvii. 36

that they may prepare a city for habitation

* Dryden

our souls, not yet prepared for upper light

To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

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

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To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

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.