prædict

A form of predict — To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.

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Meanings

verbprædict (third-person singular simple present prædicts, present participle prædicting, simple past and past participle prædicted)

present singular third person prædicts · participle present prædicting · participle past prædicted · past prædicted

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of predict.

    Therefore I shall say little more about it than, as a Friend, to advise he will never take upon him to prædict or ascribe any Persons Death, till he has learned to do it better than he did before.

    1889, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Leicester Ford, The Sayings of Poor Richard, page 37
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