prophetick

Let Mr. _Collier_ say what he pleases of Mr. _Dryden_, I begin to think 'twas his prophetick

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Whoever has perused the prophetick metrical compositions of Van Vander

Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901

"Not long after this, the aforesaid Thomas Newhouse was again whipt through the jurisdiction of Boston for testifying against the persecutors in their meeting-house there; at which time he, in a prophetick manner, having two glass bottles in his hands, threw them down, saying, 'so shall you be dashed in pieces.'"

The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887

"Why may not this Romane elogie of the Grecians extend in praisefull intention (by waye of prophetick poesie) to Graies-Inne wits and orators?"

Introduction 1857

The old maids are very prophetick on this occasion; they say, nothing but marrying her guardian on this journey can save her honor. —

The Offspring of Fancy Anonymous 1778

Rowe, by this license, easily extricates himself from difficulties; as, in Jane Grey, when we have been terrified with all the dreadful pomp of publick execution, and are wondering how the heroine or the poet will proceed, no sooner has Jane pronounced some prophetick rhymes, than -- pass and be gone -- the scene closes, and Pembroke and Gardiner are turned out upon the stage.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

Samson, touched with this reproach, makes a reply equally penitential and pious, which his father considers as the effusion of prophetick confidence:

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

Of episodes, I think, there are only two, contained in Raphael's relation of the war in heaven, and Michael's prophetick account of the changes to happen in this world.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

This play discovers its own date, by a prediction of the union, in imitation of Cranmer's prophetick promises to Henry the eighth.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

At this surprising Change of my Circumstances from a Merchant to a miserable Slave, I was perfectly overwhelmed; and now I look'd back upon my Father's prophetick Discourse to me, that I should be miserable, and have none to relieve me, which I thought was now so effectually brought to pass, that it could not be worse-that now the Hand f Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without Redemption.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719