prognosticate

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The Word of the Day for September 22 is: 

prognosticate   \prahg-NAHSS-tuh-kayt\   verb
     *1 : to foretell from signs and symptoms : predict 
     2 : presage 

Example sentence:
          The two sportscasters bantered back and forth, each dismissing the 
other’s attempts to prognosticate the outcome of the championship. 
 

Did you know?
          “Prognosticate,” which ultimately comes from the Greek “prognostikos” 
(“foretelling”), first appeared in English during the 15th century. Since that 
time, “prognosticate” has been connected with things that give omens or 
warnings of events to come and with people who can prophesy or predict the 
future by such signs. Shakespeare used the “prophesy” sense of “prognosticate” 
in the sonnet that begins “Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck”: 
 
“From thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And constant stars in them I read such art
…of thee this I prognosticate,
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.”





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