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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

... you will be? I prophesy differently. You'll throw the whole thing up in six months, and fly off to mamma in India. You haven't the least idea what you are in for, but you'll find out, you'll find out! Where is this precious school? ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... he could guess at the fluctuations of his fate. Sometimes he would gather that he and all his companions in misfortune were to be sent to the jail in Africa, or again they would hint at his immediate liberation, or would prophesy that they were all to be shot en masse. When at the end of two years he left this gloomy castle, it was to be embarked with all his companions for exile. He was only the shadow of a man; his weakness made his walk as uncertain and tremulous as that of a child, but he forgot his own misery in trying ...

— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... both creeds revere that wrangle over the later." He had a Latin text, and first he turned to the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and, reading it critically, he seemed to see that all these passages of prediction he had taken on trust as prognostications of a Redeemer might prophesy quite other and more intelligible things. And long past midnight he read among the Prophets, with flushed cheek and sparkling eye, as one drunk with new wine. What sublime truths, what aspirations after peace and ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... he, "of all the flowers you are the wisest woman! You can prophesy! Tell me, shall I obtain this one or that one? Which one? If I but know this, I can fly to the charming one at once, and pay ...

— The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. • Hans Christian Andersen

... "and return no more till I summon you, for I am about to prophesy. If, however, I should seem to die, bury me to-morrow in the place you know of and give this white man a ...

— Child of Storm • H. Rider Haggard

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