Word | prognostication |
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Definition | n. The act of foretelling or prophesying. |
Sentence | Surprisingly, Euripides makes little of this in the Bacchae, except to have Tiresias deny that his prognostication is based on his art. |
Source | Bacchae, Euripides, intro, p. xxvii |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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