unpredict
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[edit]unpredict (third-person singular simple present unpredicts, present participle unpredicting, simple past and past participle unpredicted)
- (transitive) To retract or falsify a previous prediction.
- 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:
- Means I must use, thou say'st; prediction else
Will unpredict, and fail me of the throne
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unpredict”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)