Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reveal by divine inspiration.
- intransitive verb To predict the future with certainty. synonym: foretell.
- intransitive verb To prefigure or foreshadow.
- intransitive verb To reveal the will or message of God; speak or write as a prophet.
- intransitive verb To predict future events; make predictions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
- transitive verb To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- intransitive verb To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
- intransitive verb To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
- verb deliver a sermon
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 Michael Russell 1814
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The Micah prophesy is clearly about someone of the Bethlehem Ephratah clan.
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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.
Leviathan 2007
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Some such convulsion as geologists declare has already frequently befallen our earth; and, as they prophesy, is shortly coming again.
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Jenny Wren
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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.
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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": (47) where again, the word prophesy is expounded by dream and vision.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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