Prognosticate vs Bode - What's the difference?
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To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
To presage, betoken.
And constant stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate :
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.' * *: ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least. * 1915 — , To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between prognosticate and bode
is that prognosticate is to predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill while bode is to indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.As a noun bode is
an omen; a foreshadowing.As a proper noun Bode is
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English
Verb
(prognosticat)- Examining the tea-leaves, she prognosticated dark days ahead.
- The bluebells may prognosticate an early spring this year.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1500s=1598, 1800s=1847, 1900s=1915}} * 1598 — *: But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,And constant stars in them I read such art
As 'Truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert';
Or else of thee this I prognosticate :
'Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.' * *: ...to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least. * 1915 — ,
Voyage Outch. 2 *: All old people and many sick people were drawn, were it only for a foot or two, into the open air, and prognosticated pleasant things about the course of the world.
Synonyms
* presage, prophesy, foretellbode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .
