prognostick

prognostick (comparative more prognostick, superlative most prognostick)

1. Obsolete spelling of prognostic (adjective)
   • 1720, Harvey, James: Præsagium Medicum; or, the Prognostick Signs of acute Diseases (London) p.3

     Whereas, those Distampers which are chiefly seated in the Fluids, and therefore acute and short, by reason of their quick and violent motion, occasioned sometimes by external Causes, and sometimes proceeding from this or that peculiar Inflammation of the Blood; irregularity and Intemperies of particular Bodies, run speedily through their Period; and are so nice and unmanagable, that, sometimes they seem to baffle Experience it self, and the very Principles of the Prognostick Art.

   • 1720, Morton, Richard: Phthisiologia: or, a treatise of consumptions. (W. and J. Innys, London) p.117

     Here I could easily make several Divisions of a Consumption of the Lungs, and those such as are confirm'd by daily Experience; but, because they neither afford any Light to the forming of a true Notion of this Distemper in general, nor help us to a clearer, or more distinct Understanding of the general Prognostick Signs and Indications of Cure, I shall not so much as mention them, at least in this place.

prognostick (plural prognosticks)

1. Obsolete spelling of prognostic (noun)
   • 1658, Hardy, Nathaniel: A Sad Prognostick of Approaching Judgement; Or The Happy Misery of Good Men in Bad Times (London) p.25

     So that the death of the godly, is a sad Prognostick of the destruction of the wicked.

   • 1829, Spalding, John: The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland, in the Reign of Charles I. (George King, Aberdeen) p.417

     It seemed to be a prognostick of a far greater fire raised on this earl's lands, as ye shall hear hereafter.

   • 1844, Crabb, George: English Synonymes Explained: with copious illustrations and examples, drawn from the best writers (Harper & Brothers, New York) p.93

     The omen and prognostick are both drawn from external objects; the presage is drawn from one's own feelings.