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Earliest attestation c1384 (OED)
Example
Seeing so many as have written of Tumors have set down one
definition or another, if I should set down all the severall
definitions which are by divers Authors set down, and insist in the
refutation of such definitions as offend against the conditions of a
good definition, I should rather seem to the judicious, to make an
ostentation of reading, and wit, then a care of the profiting of the
hearers. Read, Workes.
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Definition
Prognosticating
Prognosticate (v)
The act of forecasting. Cf. also Prognostication n. 1., in same
sense.
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Cf. Prognosticate v. 1. trans. a. Of a thing: to betoken or presage
(a future event, consequence, outcome, etc.); to indicate
beforehand.
1543 (EMEMT)
Whych dyseases the chirurgien maye ease in knowynge, in
curynge, and pronosticating. De Vigo, Excellent.
Nominalization Prognostication
Base
< Middle French, French pronostication (...) < prognosticat–,
past participial stem of prognosticare (to prognosticate) +
classical Latin –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Prognostication n. 1. Med. a. A prognosis (now rare); the
action or an act of making a prognosis. Cf. also Prognosticating
n., in same sense.
Earliest attestation a1400 (OED)
Example
Also wyse and circunspecte in Prognostications, last of all, he
muste be chaste and temperate of body, mercifull towarde the
pore, and not to gredy of mony. and this is sufficient touchynge
the description of hym, that muste be admitted in Chirurgerye.
Gale, Institution.
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Promising
Promise (v)
OED Promising n. The action of promise; the making of a
promise or promises.
1513 (OED)
The Prognosticks are there also delivered, that the young
Chirurgeon may be informed how to make judgement of them,
and avoid the ingaging himself in promising a Cure of such
Wounds as are mortal. Wiseman, Wounds.
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