Prognosticate

v. t.

1.

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. [imp. & p. p. Prognosticated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prognosticating.] I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. - Dryden.

Verb	1.	prognosticate - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonyms: forebode, predict, foretell, promise, anticipate, call
	2.	prognosticate - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, omen, portend, foreshadow, presage, predict, prefigure, betoken, forecast, foretell

adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell, gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate