Forecast that pride will take a fall at court (7)
I believe the answer is:
predict
'forecast' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'pride will take a fall at court' is the wordplay.
'will take' suggests deleting specific letters.
'a fall' becomes 'die'.
'at court' becomes 'edict' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'pride' with 'die' taken away is 'pr'.
'pr'+'edict'='PREDICT'
'that' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for predict that I've seen before include "Estimate consequence of" , "Foretell, prophesy" , "act as oracle" , "Prophesy - portend" , "Guess (the future)" .)