Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To reveal by divine inspiration.
- v. To predict with certainty as if by divine inspiration. See Synonyms at foretell.
- v. To prefigure; foreshow.
- v. To reveal the will or message of God.
- v. To predict the future as if by divine inspiration.
- v. To speak as a prophet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To predict; foretell; foreshow. See prophet.
- To speak by divine inspiration; utter or tell as prophet.
- To utter predictions; foretell future events.
- To interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; preach; exhort.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
- v. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- v. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
- v. To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.
WordNet 3.0
- v. predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
- v. deliver a sermon
Etymologies
- Partly from prophecy, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie ("prophecy"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English prophecien, from Old French prophecier, from prophecie, prophecy; see prophecy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term prophesy, in this instance, must be restricted to the use of psalmody, because exposition or exhortation in public was not permitted to the women, who were not allowed to speak or even to ask a question in a place of worship.”
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
“The Micah prophesy is clearly about someone of the Bethlehem Ephratah clan.”
“Roth has long been pessimistic about the survival of the novel in a gaudy, short-attention-span culture, but his latest prophesy is one of his bleakest yet, predicting that the form will dwindle to a “cultic” minority enthusiasm within 25 years.”
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“And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": 149 where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision.”
“Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again.”
“As he bore it patiently, and did not answer, they doubtless supposed they had discovered another reason to think he was an impostor; The word prophesy does not mean only to foretell future events -- although that is the proper meaning of the word; but also to declare anything that is unknown, or anything which cannot be known by natural knowledge, or without revelation.”
“And, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions": (47) where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘prophesy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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RELI - words you immediately associat...
advent, almighty, altar, anoint, apostle, archangel, ark, Balaam, baptism, baptist, baptize, begotten and 341 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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wl1
occult, necromancy, diabolism, conjure, metaphoric, metaphor, sorcerer, legerdemain, talisman, amulet, necrophobia, deftness and 135 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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