prognosticating
English edit
Verb edit
prognosticating
- present participle and gerund of prognosticate
Adjective edit
prognosticating (comparative more prognosticating, superlative most prognosticating)
- Of something that predicts or forecasts.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 213:
- Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;" but of this the young wife doubted; nor could she help shaking her head, in a prognosticating manner.