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Prophesy v. t. (past & past part. prophesied; pres. part. prophesying)

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. "He doth not prophesy good concerning me." "Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy."

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. "Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee."

Prophesy v. i.

To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.

To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

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Etymology of 'Prophesy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prophesy" Quotes from Famous Books

... art that is to come who may prophesy? But this at least seems to follow from comparing that past with the confusion in which we are now struggling and the light which glimmers through it; that that art will no longer be an art of instinct, of ignorance which is hopeful to learn and strives to see; ...

— Hopes and Fears for Art • William Morris

... can prophesy what a lion will do in any given emergency. This one glared and growled at the girl for a moment and then fell to feeding upon the dead horse. Fraulein Kircher wondered for an instant and then ...

— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... experiences of the Christian life here, in their greatness and in their smallness, declare that there come a time and an order of things in which what was thwarted tendency shall be accomplished result. The tender green spikelet, pushing up through the brown clods, does not more surely prophesy the waving yellow ear, nor the broad highway on which a man comes in the wilderness more surely declare that there is a village at the end of it, than do the facts of the Christian life, here and now, attest the validity of the hope of the ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... unscientific man to keep still, lie low, and wait till they do it. Captain Eads, with his jetties, has done a work at the mouth of the Mississippi which seemed clearly impossible; so we do not feel full confidence now to prophesy against like impossibilities. Otherwise one would pipe out and say the Commission might as well bully the comets in their courses and undertake to make them behave, as try to bully the Mississippi ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... energetic nor eloquent. For thou art a woman of iron mind and of persuasive tongue; and thy perseverance, as is thy will, is indomitable. Follow my counsel, then—and, though the future to a great extent be concealed from my view, yet I dare prophesy success for ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

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