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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb prophesy has 2 senses
- prophesy(v = verb.communication) vaticinate - predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration; Array is one way to anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise
- prophesy(v = verb.communication) preach - deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" is one way to lecture, talk
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue prophesy
CIDE DICTIONARY
prophesy, v. t. [See Prophecy.].
- To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. [1913 Webster]"He doth not prophesy good concerning me." 1 Kings xxii. 8. [1913 Webster]"Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy." [1913 Webster] - To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. [1913 Webster]"Methought thy very gait did prophesy
A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee." [1913 Webster]
prophesy, v. i.
- To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7. [1913 Webster]
- To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. Ezek. xxxvii. 7. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prophesy, v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. (usu. foll. by that, who, etc.) foretell (an event etc.).
2 intr. speak as a prophet; foretell future events.
3 intr. archaic expound the Scriptures.
1 tr. (usu. foll. by that, who, etc.) foretell (an event etc.).
2 intr. speak as a prophet; foretell future events.
3 intr. archaic expound the Scriptures.
Derivative
prophesier n.
Etymology
ME f. OF profecier (as PROPHECY)
THESAURUS
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, vaticinateROGET THESAURUS
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Prediction
VB predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.
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