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Webster 1913 Edition
Prophesy
1.
To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
He doth not
prophesy
good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8.
Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime
Henry the Fifth did sometime
prophesy
. Shakespeare
2.
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
Methought thy very gait did
A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
prophesy
A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
Shakespeare
Proph′e-sy
,Verb.
I.
1.
To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
Matt. xv. 7.
2.
To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.
Ezek. xxxvii. 7.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prophesy
PROPH'ESY
,Verb.
T.
I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning
me, but evil. 1 Kings.22.
1.
To foreshow. [Little used.]PROPH'ESY
,Verb.
I.
1.
In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Cor.13. Ezek.37.Definition 2025
prophesy
prophesy
English
Verb
prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)
- To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. [from 14th c.]
- To predict, to foretell. [from 14th c.]
- Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- Shakespeare
- Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 745:
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
- To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- Shakespeare
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.
- Shakespeare
- (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach. [from 14th c.]
Related terms
Translations
to predict
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to speak as a prophet
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to preach
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