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[Divination by the stars] astrology[obs3], horoscopy[obs3], judicial
astrology1[obs3].
[obs3] adytum[Place of prediction].
prefiguration[obs3], prefigurement; prototype, type.
[person who predicts] oracle &c. 513.
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
soothsay, augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn &c. 668.
presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure,
preshow[obs3]; portend; foreshow[obs3], foreshadow; shadow forth, typify,
pretypify[obs3], ominate[obs3], 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 &c 64.
[predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience]
extrapolate, project.
Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic[obs3],
fatidical[obs3]; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent[obs3], haruspical,
Sibylline; weatherwise[obs3].
ominous, portentous, augurous[obs3], augurial, augural;
auspicial[obs3], auspicious; prescious[obs3], monitory, extispicious[obs3],
premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus
bona verba[Lat]; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].
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