In various parts of India there is a superstitious belief that the flowering and seeding of various species of Bamboo is a sure prognostication of an approaching famine.
To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health and dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune.
For a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception.
After eliminating all contingencies arising from clerical error and counteracting influence, the prognosticationis sure of fulfilment.
To dream of seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation of family disagreements and favorable times for planning new enterprises.
To dream of the zodiac is a prognostication of unparalleled rise in material worth, but also indicates alloyed peace and happiness.
If this kindly prognostication was verified, Miss Delmege gave no sign of it, beyond introducing several additional shades of superiority into the manner of her congratulations.
Joanna had some opinion of Mrs. Willoughby's shrewdness, if none of her discretion, and this prognostication gave her a sense of comfort which she had had no slightest expectation of deriving from the visit of condolence.
He follows up this discussion with a treatment of prognostication as exhibiting some of the effects of the Active Intellect upon the reason and imagination of man.
At Rome," Montaigne tells us, "a large sum of money was lost on the Change by this prognostication of our ruin.
Her dinners were Lucullan in their magnificence; and over the rare wines and imperial cigars which she furnished, her guests passed many a tip and prognosticationanent the market, which she in turn quietly transmitted to her brokers.
The formative period of his character was not yet ended, and the data for prognosticationwere too complex and conflicting.
Its most common form in these counties is a large, black dog with flaming eyes; and its appearance is a certain prognostication of death.
It ran sometimes straight ahead, but usually in circles, and to see it was a prognostication of death.
In an old number of Notes and Queries a correspondent relates that in Somersetshire the appearance of a single jackdaw is regarded as a sure prognostication of evil.
Half an hour passed without the prognostication of the fisherman being fulfilled.
Gowrie looked up, but Julia was no longer to be seen; but, as he mounted the ascent, his heart beat with joyful feelings to see Beatrice's light prognostication falsified.
Thus, she carried out the prognostication of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, who had opposed the prosecution.
It were an affront to our readers to comment on the ridiculous pretended prognostication so gravely believed by Garcilasso Inca.
In Shakespeare's day these were published under this title: "An Almanack and Prognostication made for the year of our Lord God, 1595.
Autolycus says: "the hottest day prognostication proclaims;" that is, the hottest day foretold in the almanac.
Ralph's prognostication as to the weather had turned out right, and a white coating of snow lay over the country.
His prognostication turned out well founded and, to Ralph's intense delight, Percy knew him when he opened his eyes.
An euerlasting Prognosticationof the state and condition of euerye yeare, by the only Kalends of Ianuarie: written by that antient learned Leopoldus Austriacus, and others, for the commoditie of the wise Husbandmen.
An euerlasting Prognostication of the state and cap.
Prognostication can hardly be part of the evidence for survival.
Faith, ay; it seems his prognostication has not kept touch with him, and that makes him despair.
A prognostication by Jaspar Laet may have been printed apparently either by Scolar or Kyrforth.
It was supposed, that to make the prognostication sure, the cock would have to crow three times in succession before or about midnight, and in the same direction.
The efforts of the priest were accordingly directed towards this end--the prognostication of the future.
Upon the success of the priest in performing this function of prognostication everything depended, both for himself and for the petitioner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prognostication" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
