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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A true saying; truth.

[Obs.]

The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.

A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by

soothsaying

Acts xvi. 16.

A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

Divinations and

soothsayings

and dreams are vain.

Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

Noun.

The foretelling of future events by persons without divine aid or authority, and thus distinguished form prophecy.

soothsaying ‎(plural soothsayings)