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Example sentences for "prognosticated"

Lexicographically close words:
prognathism; prognathous; prognosis; prognostic; prognosticate; prognosticates; prognosticating; prognostication; prognostications; prognostics
  1. But the choice which the king at first made of his principal ministers and favorites, was the circumstance which chiefly gave contentment to the nation, and prognosticated future happiness and tranquillity.

  2. The whigs, suitably to their ancient principles of liberty, which had led them to attempt the exclusion bill, easily agreed to oppose a king, whose conduct had justified whatever his worst enemies had prognosticated concerning his succession.

  3. Ministers appear to have been very early convinced of their error; for when they saw these armed associations in their full strength, they, with the people of England at large, prognosticated insurrection and civil war.

  4. Thus, a person born on the 14th will be prognosticated "to get their food from afar.

  5. In old times it was believed that certain birds prognosticated death.

  6. The seers, also, in gentle terms showed that bad and unfavourable signs were always prognosticated to Crassus by the victims.

  7. People in Scotland also prognosticated the weather of the coming season, according to whether Candlemas was clear or foul.

  8. On this, the fourth day, the priests prognosticated the future state of the deceased.

  9. They attentively listened to the groans and cries of wild beasts, and prognosticated from them, and believed in witchcraft.

  10. Malone quotes this very memorandum, which he discovered in Oldys's Langbaine, to show Dryden had some confidence in Oneirocriticism, and supposed that future events were sometimes prognosticated by dreams.

  11. This state of affairs prognosticated a long war!

  12. Excepting their principles of toleration, the maxims by which the republicans regulated ecclesiastical affairs no more prognosticated any durable settlement, than those by which they conducted their civil concerns.

  13. But though fortune seemed to have divided her favors between the parties, the king found himself, in the main, a considerable loser by this winter campaign; and he prognosticated a still worse event from the ensuing summer.

  14. The person who had observed all this, and who declared positively that she had not walked that way on purpose, reported it all fully to the honest folks of Emberton, who instantly prognosticated a marriage.

  15. The first acts of Henry's government corresponded to the high idea entertained of his abilities, and prognosticated the re-establishment of justice and tranquillity, of which the kingdom had so long been bereaved.

  16. This conduct of the court, which in all its circumstances is so barbarous, weak, and imprudent, both merited and prognosticated the most grievous calamities.

  17. The Norwegian government knows what means to employ to produce »these good relations», namely, establishing its own Consular Service in the way prognosticated in the past.

  18. Swedes have been very unwilling to listen to the prophets of evil who have pointed to the deficiencies and deformities of Norwegian policy, and prognosticated trouble.

  19. July was very different from that of the 27th; that prognosticated destruction, this rises announcing happiness.

  20. Robbers, bad roads, horrible heat, poisonous animals; many are the difficulties prognosticated to us.

  21. The soothsayers whom he consulted on the matter prognosticated for him a successful career: "Thou holdest the south countries; seize thou those of the north, and let the crowns of the two regions gleam upon thy brow!

  22. He prognosticated her decease on the following day, which accordingly came to pass, from her being choked with a piece of gold, not lawfully appertaining to herself, which she was endeavouring to conceal under the root of her tongue.

  23. At the same moment the shower prognosticated by the Sage burst forth, scattering the Butterflies in all directions, drenching the Philosopher, whose foresight had not assumed the shape of an umbrella, and spoiling his new hat.

  24. With anxious countenance and attentive ears, they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles, which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity.

  25. Great things are prognosticated for Concepcion in the near future by its friends, and it is already the principal town of southern Chili.

  26. The first dream prognosticated the future greatness of Phralaong, whose sway, by the diffusion of his doctrines throughout the world, was to be universal, extending from one sea to the other sea.

  27. They had no sooner arrived in sight of it than they saw many signs which prognosticated that in the city would be found an accomplished princess, in every respect qualified to become the wife of the heir to the throne of Kapilawot.

  28. If the teeth were found lying east and west, it was a good omen; but if they lay north and south, it prognosticated defeat.

  29. And if the bird were heard chattering or scolding, as they called it, at midnight, it prognosticated an attack next day, and they would at once send off the women and children to a place of safety.

  30. Fine weather is prognosticated by the group H.

  31. A violent storm is prognosticated by a red flag with a black centre.

  32. A white flag is hoisted for clear weather, a blue one for rain, while local showers are prognosticated by a flag half blue and half white.


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