KJV Dictionary Definition: prognostic

prognostic

PROGNOS'TIC, a. Foreshowing; indicating something future by signs or symptoms; as the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

PROGNOS'TIC, n. In medicine, the judgment formed concerning the event of a disease by means of the symptoms.

1. Something which foreshows; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.

In medicine, a sign or symptom indicating the event of a disease. The appearance of the tongue--is of considerable importance as a prognostic.

1. A foretelling; prediction.

prognosticate

PROGNOS'TICATE, v.t. from prognostic.

1. To foreshow; to indicate a future event by present signs. A clear sky at sunset prognosticates a fair day.

2. To foretell by means of present signs; to predict.

I neither will nor can prognosticate

To the young gaping heir his father's fate.

prognosticated

PROGNOS'TICATED, pp. Foreshown; foretold.

prognosticating

PROGNOS'TICATING, ppr. Foreshowing; foretelling.

prognostication

PROGNOSTICA'TION, n. The act of foreshowing a future event by present signs.

1. The act of foretelling an event by present signs.

2. A foretoken; previous sign.

prognosticator

PROGNOS'TICATOR, n. A foreknower or foreteller of a future event by present signs.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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