0 to give a judgment about what is likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation:
Finally, our just man was an admirable astrologer, but he only loved astrology so that he could distinguish the times and prognosticate those which would be prosperous for his congregation.
Significant aspects of these trends include the ability to diagnose impending failures, prognosticate the remaining useful lifetime of the process and schedule maintenance operations so that uptime is maximized.
The programme here is that of understanding, explaining, and prognosticating actual behavior by characterizing, first, rational behavior, and then assuming that actual behavior will coincide with rational behavior.
I prognosticated at the time it was instituted that it was bound to fail.
It is a very difficult thing for us to prognosticate what will happen in regard to trade.
I could prognosticate quite clearly what he would say on the question of withdrawing a subsidy or withdrawing welfare foods.
Therefore, we cannot prognosticate possible likely finds with any reasonable degree of certainty.
Who could have prognosticated that a few years after that disastrous failure they would be making the profits that they are making to-day?
