[syn: preach, prophesy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prophesy \Proph"e*sy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prophesied; p. pr.
& vb. n. Prophesying.] [See Prophecy.]
1. To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
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He doth not prophesy good concerning me. --1 Kings
xxii. 8.
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Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. --Shak.
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2. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
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Methought thy very gait did prophesy
A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prophesy \Proph"e*sy\, v. i.
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1. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to
come. --Matt. xv. 7.
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2. To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or
explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to
exhort; to expound. --Ezek. xxxvii. 7.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prophesy
v 1: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine
inspiration [syn: prophesy, vaticinate]
2: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday"
[syn: preach, prophesy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "prophesy":
adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, await, be destined,
be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, divine, dope,
dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode,
forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, fortune-tell,
guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, hope, lie ahead, look for,
look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis,
make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure,
presage, prognosticate, project, promise, read palms,
read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate,
tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate