Soothsayer

4 definitions found

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

  Soothsayer \Sooth"say`er\, n.
     1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a
        prognosticator.
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     2. (Zool.) A mantis.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  soothsayer
       n : someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the
           basis of special knowledge) [syn: {forecaster}, {predictor},
            {prognosticator}]

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

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "soothsayer":
     Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler,
     crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster,
     foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller,
     geomancer, haruspex, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager,
     prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess,
     psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, vates,
     weather prophet
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Soothsayer
     one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so
     called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a "diviner," as rendered 1 Sam.
     6:2; rendered "prudent," Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12
     (Heb. yonenim, i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used
     of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27;
     5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e.,
     "deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean
     astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the
     stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and
     divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.",
     Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See {SORCERER}.)