prediction

Roget category 511

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.6. Extension of thought
›› 4.6.2. To the future

#511. Prediction

noun

prediction, announcement — program, programme [Brit.] etc. (plan) 626 — premonition etc. (warning) 668 — prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology^†, prognostication, premonstration^† — augury, auguration^† — ariolation^†, hariolation^† — foreboding, aboding^† — bodement^†, abodement^† — omniation^†, omniousness^† — auspices, forecast — omen etc. 512 — horoscope, nativity — sooth^†, soothsaying — fortune telling, crystal gazing — divination — necromancy etc. 992.
[Divination by the stars] astrology^†, horoscopy^†, judicial astrology^†.
[Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration^†, prefigurement — prototype, type.
[person who predicts] oracle etc. 513.

verb

predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate^†, tell fortunes — cast a horoscope, cast a nativity — advise — forewarn etc. 668.
presage, augur, bode — abode, forebode — foretoken, betoken — prefigure, preshow^† — portend — foreshow^†, foreshadow — shadow forth, typify, pretypify^†, ominate^†, signify, point to.
usher in, herald, premise, announce — lower.
hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope — bid fair, promise, lead one to expect — be the precursor etc. 64.
[predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate, project.

adjective

predicting etc. v. — predictive, prophetic — fatidic^†, fatidical^† — vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent^†, haruspical, Sibylline — weatherwise^†.
ominous, portentous, augurous^†, augurial, augural — auspicial^†, auspicious — prescious^†, monitory, extispicious^†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

phrase

coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba [Lat.] — there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young]. [Divination: list] by oracles, Theomancy^† — by the Bible, Bibliomancy — by ghosts, Psychomancy^† — by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy^† — by shadows or manes, Sciomancy — by appearances in the air, Aeromancy^†, Chaomancy^† — by the stars at birth, Genethliacs — by meteors, Meteoromancy^† — by winds, Austromancy^† — by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy, Haruspicy^†, Hieromancy^†, Hieroscopy^† — by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy^†, Hieromancy^† — by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy^† — by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy^† — by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy^† — by red-hot iron, Sideromancy^† — by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy^† — by mice, Myomancy^† — by birds, Orniscopy^†, Ornithomancy^† — by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy, Alectromancy^† — by fishes, Ophiomancy^† — by herbs, Botanomancy^† — by water, Hydromancy^† — by fountains, Pegomancy^† — by a wand, Rhabdomancy — by dough of cakes, Crithomancy^† — by meal, Aleuromancy^†, Alphitomancy^† — by salt, Halomancy^† — by dice, Cleromancy^† — by arrows, Belomancy^† — by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy^† — by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy^† — by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy^† — by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy^† — by precious stones, Lithomancy^† — by pebbles, Pessomancy^† — by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy^† — by mirrors, Catoptromancy^† — by writings in ashes, Tephramancy^† — by dreams, Oneiromancy^† — by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy — by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy^† — by finger rings, Dactylomancy^† — by numbers, Arithmancy^† — by drawing lots, Sortilege^† — by passages in books, Stichomancy^† — by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy^†, Nomancy — by the features, Anthroposcopy^† — by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy^† — by ventriloquism, Gastromancy^† — by walking in a circle, Gyromancy^† — by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy^† — by currents, Bletonism — by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy^†.

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