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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROPH'ESY, v.t. To foretell future events; to predict.
I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning
me, but evil. 1 Kings 22.
1. To foreshow. [Little used.]
PROPH'ESY, v.i. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Jeremiah 11.
1. In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Corinthians 13. Ezek 37.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

verb (-sied; -sying) Etymology: Middle English prophesien, from Anglo-French *prophecier, from Old French, from prophecie Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to utter by or as if by divine inspiration 2. to predict with assurance or on the basis of mystic knowledge 3. prefigure intransitive verb 1. to speak as if divinely inspired 2. to give instruction in religious matters ; preach 3. to make a prediction Synonyms: see foretell • prophesier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (-ies, -ied) 1 tr. (usu. foll. by that, who, etc.) foretell (an event etc.). 2 intr. speak as a prophet; foretell future events. 3 intr. archaic expound the Scriptures. Derivatives: prophesier n. Etymology: ME f. OF profecier (as PROPHECY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prophesy Proph"e*sy, v. 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's 1913 Dictionary

Prophesy Proph"e*sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prophesied; p. pr. & vb. n. Prophesying.] [See Prophecy.] 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 prophesy. --Shak. 2. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(prophesies, prophesying, prophesied) If you prophesy that something will happen, you say that you strongly believe that it will happen. He prophesied that within five years his opponent would either be dead or in prison... She prophesied a bad ending for the expedition. = predict VERB: V that, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Predict, foretell, prognosticate, divine, augur, premonish.

Moby Thesaurus

adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate, project, promise, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate