prognostick

These acute and subtile spirits, in all their sagacity, can hardly divine who shall be saved; which if they could prognostick, their labour were at an end, nor need they compass the earth, seeking whom they may devour.

Religio Medici 2007

"It's a guid prognostick to feel hungry after sic a crack o 'the head," said the chieftain, smiling, and I thought with a twinge what a handsome, wholesome sight he made.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

These acute and subtile spirits, in all their sagacity, can hardly divine who shall be saved; which if they could prognostick, their labour were at an end, nor need they compass the earth, seeking whom they may devour.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

Lastly, let it not seem altogether impertinent, if I add one premonition to those less experienc’d gardners, who frequently expose their orange, and like tender-furniture trees of the green-house too early: That the first leaves putting forth of this wise tree, (_sapientissima_, as {213: 1} Pliny calls it) is a more infallible note when those delicate plants may be safely brought out to the air, than by any other prognostick or indication.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

In order to this hopeful prognostick, we will add a few directions about gathering of their leaves, to render this chapter one of the most accomplish’d, for certainly one of the most accomplish’d and agreeable works in the world.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663