Prediction
Prediction
#511. Prediction. -- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme
&c. (plan) 626[Brit]; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy,
vaticination, mantology[obs], prognostication, premonstration|; augury,
auguration|; ariolation|, hariolation|; foreboding, aboding[obs];
bodement[obs], abodement[obs]; omniation|, omniousness[obs]; auspices,
forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth[obs], soothsaying;
fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c. 992.
- [Divination by the stars] astrology[obs], horoscopy[obs], judicial
astrology1[obs].
- [obs] adytum[Place of prediction].
- prefiguration[obs], prefigurement; prototype, type.
- [person who predicts] oracle &c. 513.
- V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
soothsay, augurate[obs], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn &c. 668.
- presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure,
preshow[obs]; portend; foreshow[obs], foreshadow; shadow forth, typify,
pretypify[obs], ominate[obs], 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[obs],
fatidical[obs]; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent[obs], haruspical,
Sibylline; weatherwise[obs].
- ominous, portentous, augurous[obs], augurial, augural;
auspicial[obs], auspicious; prescious[obs], monitory, extispicious[obs],
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].
- [1] The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination,
have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious
illustration of bygone superstitions:-
- Divination by oracles, Theomancy[obs]; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by
ghosts, Psychomancy[obs]; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy[obs]; by
shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy[obs],
Chaomancy[obs]; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors,
Meteoromancy[obs]; by winds, Austromancy[obs]; by sacrificial
appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy)[obs], Hieromancy[obs],
Hieroscopy[obs]; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy[obs],
Hieromancy[obs]; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,
Anthropomancy[obs]; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy[obs]; by
sacrificial fire, Pyromancy[obs]; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy[obs]; by
smoke from the altar, Capnomancy[obs]; by mice, Myomancy[obs]; by birds,
Orniscopy[obs], Ornithomancy[obs]; by a cock picking up grains,
Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy)[obs]; by fishes, Ophiomancy[obs]; by
herbs, Botanomancy[obs]; by water, Hydromancy[obs]; by fountains,
Pegomancy[obs]; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes,
Crithomancy[obs]; by meal, Aleuromancy[obs], Alphitomancy[obs]; by salt,
Halomancy[obs]; by dice, Cleromancy[obs]; by arrows, Belomancy[obs]; by
a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy[obs]; by a balanced sieve,
Coscinomancy[obs]; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy[obs]; by dots made
at random on paper, Geomancy[obs]; by precious stones, Lithomancy[obs];
by pebbles, Pessomancy[obs]; by pebbles drawn from a heap,
Psephomancy[obs]; by mirrors, Catoptromancy[obs]; by writings in ashes,
Tephramancy[obs]; by dreams, Oneiromancy[obs]; by the hand, Palmistry,
Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy[obs]; by
finger rings, Dactylomancy[obs]; by numbers, Arithmancy[obs]; by drawing
lots, Sortilege[obs]; by passages in books, Stichomancy[obs]; by the
letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy[obs], Nomancy; by the
features, Anthroposcopy[obs]; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy[obs]; by
ventriloquism, Gastromancy[obs]; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy[obs];
by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy[obs]; by currents, Bletonism;
by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy[obs].