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Prognostication Bacchae N Act Foretelling Prophesying Surprisingly Euripides

Word prognostication
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

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