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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prophecise.

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Examples

  • Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil.

    Army of Darkness | BuyZombie.com 2007

  • The shattered remnants of the Bridgeburners - Mallet, Spindle, Picker, Bluepearl, Blend and Antsy - have settled in Darujhistan to run a bar whilst a shadowy group of mages awaits the long-prophecised coming of a Tyrant who will conquer it.

    Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson Adam Whitehead 2008

  • They are prophecised to save UnLondon from the Smog, but there is one snag: they haven't a clue how they're going to do it.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Could she be the one girl this generation prophecised to kill them?

    Terror Week: Horrifying Real Ghost Videos! David Campbell 2007

  • If the surface temperature increases by half a degree, as is prophecised by the IPCC, the number of tropical cyclones will increase to 15-20 per year, Curry claims.

    Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007

  • They are prophecised to save UnLondon from the Smog, but there is one snag: they haven't a clue how they're going to do it.

    Un Lun Dun by China Mieville Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Ewiak, there's plenty of mad stuff in the bible that I could quote back at you from my mispent youth, but it's worrying enough when people take it half seriously let alone when you start claiming to see the present or the future prophecised in it.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Nuclear war has not been prophecised - God knows best. come one dave,what's happened to that no fly zone? aaarh that's right you were talking crap and writing cheques the uk couldn't cash. it seems gaddafi's son had you right when he said ..

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • And though he did not deliver the hat-trick he prophecised in the Classico against against Sao Paulo, an exquisite winning goal was enough for his adoring fans here.

    Football.co.uk news feed 2010

  • Nevertheless, it is prophecised that they shall wed and found the famous Este line, who shall rise to become one of the major families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy (it is worth noting that the Estes where the patrons of both Boiardo and Ariosto).

    Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1503

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