prognostics

Like a surgeon, Burton sets about the task of anatomising melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics & several cures of it, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened & cut up.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Like a surgeon, Burton sets about the task of anatomising melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics & several cures of it, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened & cut up.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design.

Cecilia 2008

'The time,' cried she, 'is past for consolation, and dead for hope! my parents' own prayers have been averted, and their prognostics fulfilled.

Camilla 2008

Like a surgeon, Burton sets about the task of anatomising melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics & several cures of it, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically opened & cut up.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

If this superstitious fear of spirits were taken away, and with it prognostics from dreams, false prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be would be much more fitted than they are for civil obedience.

Leviathan 2007

And incurable cases should be known, that they may not be aggravated by useless applications, and splendid and creditable prognostics are made by knowing where, how, and when every case will terminate, and whether it will be converted into a curable or an incurable disease.

On The Articulations 2007

But these will be treated of among the chronic affections of the lungs; for these the most suitable prognostics of what will happen in these cases are given.

On The Articulations 2007

But, indeed, Doctor Dee, the wise man, gave her but this summer I know not what of prognostics and diagnostics concerning me.

Westward Ho! 2007

And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seed of religion; which, by reason of the different fancies, judgements, and passions of several men, hath grown up into ceremonies so different that those which are used by one man are for the most part ridiculous to another.

Leviathan 2007