Prognosticate vs Expect - 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 look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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, title= To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616):
*1825 , (Walter Scott), , A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25:
(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
Prognosticate is a related term of expect.
As verbs the difference between prognosticate and expect
is that prognosticate is to predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill while expect is to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).prognosticate
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, foretellexpect
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)