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  • noun Plural form of seer.

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Examples

  • During the night the Trevanyi had waxed passionate at their conclave; they had walked through fires; they had performed their bounding mood-dances; their "Grotesques," as they called their seers, had breathed the smoke of baicha roots and had belched forth the destiny of the Trevanyi race.

    Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

  • That his eyes are open (v. 15), for prophets were in old time called seers (1 Sam.ix. 9), because they must speak what they had seen, and therefore, before they opened their lips, it was necessary that they should have their eyes open.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • And that tempest will produce the first of the next generation of "seers" - or, if you like, the next generation of Prophets.

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2008

  • And that tempest will produce the first of the next generation of "seers" - or, if you like, the next generation of Prophets.

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2008

  • And that tempest will produce the first of the next generation of "seers" - or, if you like, the next generation of Prophets.

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2008

  • Chancellor: All of you so-called seers: you have your price.

    A student play blasting N.Y. school reform is banned Valerie Strauss 2010

  • As there are, now and then, those who see farther than others with the physical eye, so there have been a few teachers who have been rightly called seers, because their eyes have penetrated farther into the mysteries of the universe than have those of their fellow-men.

    The Ascent of the Soul Amory H. Bradford

  • What is wrong with Marken is that for the most part it subsists on sight-seers, which is bad; and it too generally suggests that

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • Let us come to that true insight of the old prophets, who are fittingly called seers; whose eyes pierced the veil of matter, and saw God clothing the grass of the field, feeding the sparrows, giving snow like wool and scattering hoar-frost like ashes, and ever standing on the bow of our wide-sailing world, and ever saying to all tumultuous forces, "Peace, be still."

    Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871

  • From this mode of revelation, by opening the prophets eyes to see realities invisible to others, they were called seers, and the revelations they were commissioned to make were called visions; and revelation from God was called, in general, vision.

    Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857

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