The word "prognosticate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "make predictions about the future". For example: "The financial analyst was able to prognosticate the movements of the stock market with remarkable precision."
Asked at another meeting if weekend voting might raise turnout, he replied: "The idea of a Sunday [election] that you prognosticate is not offensive to me".
And the Supreme Court may be called upon once again to investigate, prognosticate and make logical deductions.
With much less disruption to the economies of highly indebted poor countries that the measure is supposed to help, the IMF could issue a small tranche of SDRs which would have no measurable inflationary impact.While learned economists may prognosticate about how gold is outdated as a store of value, it is indisputably an asset of choice for poor people in developing and developed countries.
But prognosticate the local Liberal Democrats do.
Two areas that have been radically transformed by those advances are the ability to prognosticate cancer outcome (forecasting the evolution of the tumour and fate of the patient) and the ability to predict how a tumour will respond to a specific drug.
Science fiction writers often seek out new scientific and technical developments in order to prognosticate freely the techno-social changes that will shock the readers' sense of cultural propriety and expand their consciousness.
More damaging to the common weal than internecine brawling is the sheer amount of pontificating ("America loves a winner," "America loves the underdog") and prognosticating and chest puffing that is engaged in by the cast of dubious characters who are given a forum on cable-news programs and run around from network to network like free-range chickens.
The piece — which seemed, at first sight, to test the outer limits of the butterfly-flapping-its-wings theory — quoted Brown Brothers Harriman prognosticating: "One possible outcome of the [IMF] turmoil could be to accelerate the bid by EM [emerging-market] countries for more influence and a high-profile position at the fund".
At times, he would talk a lot, riffing and prognosticating; at others, he'd retreat and play a half a dozen songs without saying a word.
But, so that we can get this out of our system, here's a look at the distant 2016 presidential race, the never-ending campaigning and invariably incorrect prognosticating.
No one outside Apple really knows what products the company will introduce next, but that hasn't stopped Wall Street analysts from prognosticating about potential new iPhones.
