predict

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PREDICT', verb transitive [Latin proedictus, proedico; proe, before, and dico, to tell.] To foretell; to tell beforehand something that is to happen. Moses predicted the dispersion of the Israelites. Christ predicted the destruction of Jerusalem.
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