prophesy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To speak or write with divine inspiration

   To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.

   • And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
   • No, but when the Spirit fils The fantastick Pannicles: Full of fier; then I write
2. 2

   To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).

   • Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy ‘If once he come to be a cardinal, He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’
   • My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
   • He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
3. 3

   To foreshow

   To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

   • Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
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   1. 4

      To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration

      To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

   2. 5

      Obsolete spelling of prophecy

      Obsolete spelling of prophecy; now a misspelling.

      • This was the fullneſs of Time, in which all the Propheſies (concerning the Meſſias) were exactly fulfilled. Nothing was ever foretold of Jeſus Chriſt, which was not exactly performed in the fullneſs of Time.
      • BEING An Hiſtorical Deſcription of the Papal Empire, as it is Originally Copied out of the Propheſies of Holy Writ.

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