Prognosticate vs Forethink - What's the difference?
prognosticate | forethink |
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 — , (rare) To plan (something) in advance; think, consider, or contrive beforehand; prognosticate.
(rare) To think about beforehand; to anticipate.
* 1635 , John Donne, Song :
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between prognosticate and forethink
is that prognosticate is to predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill while forethink is (rare) to plan (something) in advance; think, consider, or contrive beforehand; prognosticate.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, foretellforethink
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Verb
- (Bishop Hall)
- Let not thy divining heart / Forethinke me any ill [...].
- The soul of every man / Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.