Prophesied

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prophesy
       v 1: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine
            inspiration [syn: {vaticinate}]
       2: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this
          Sunday" [syn: {preach}]
       [also: {prophesied}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prophesied
       See {prophesy}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "prophesied":
     approaching, coming, desired, destinal, destined, determined,
     emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, forecast,
     foreknown, foreseen, foreshown, foretold, forthcoming, future,
     futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, later, nearing,
     planned, plotted, predicted, presaged, probable, projected,
     prospective, to come, to-be, ultimate