What's the difference between preominate and prophesy?

Preominate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ominate beforehand; to portend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Sorex, living preominantly on the ground, there is a duct-like palpebral fissure, and most of the parts of the visual system are well developed in adaptation to its life habits.
  • (2) While few of our concerns about a preominantly behavioral approach to marriage therapy have been ameliorated by Jacobson and Weiss' commentary, some success seems to have been achieved in terms of our original purpose: to stimulate critical thinking about the premises and process of marital therapy.
  • (3) Six to 25 (mean 14) lymph nodes from each patient were examined histologically and classified as follows: lymphocyte preominant, germinal center predominant, unstimulated, or lymphocyte depleted.

Prophesy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
  • (v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
  • (v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.
  • (v. i.) To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staff say the most popular exhibits are interactive displays about end-of-the-world prophesies, though they stress that 21 December simply marks the change from one 5,125 year-era to another.
  • (2) This became clear in bizarre fashion last year, after a woman in Fort Mill, South Carolina, prophesied that Bristol was about to become “the healing capital of England”.
  • (3) You are the first writer I know of to have prophesied Ronald Reagan as president.
  • (4) In 1940, Henry Ford prophesied that “a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming.
  • (5) Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough.
  • (6) Four were arrested in Hebei and Sichuan provinces for distributing cataclysm-themed leaflets, and another four in the south-western metropolis Chongqing for prophesying via megaphone on the city's streets.
  • (7) Bugarach, a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, was – according to an internet rumour no one has ever got to the bottom of – said by Mayans to be the only place on Earth to survive the apocalypse prophesied for 21 December.
  • (8) This paper addresses the questions of how older, regular users learn to live with these apparent contradictions, how they are influenced by legal sanctions and informal controls, and why they have not (as prophesied in the early 1970s) become an active force for drug law reform.
  • (9) The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements.
  • (10) The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.
  • (11) Having casually prophesied the death of Robbie Williams and co, Moir moves on to her main point: that Gately's death strikes her as a bit fishy .
  • (12) But, he added, persecution was "no surprise for Christians because Jesus prophesied it".
  • (13) Although these prophesies have been proven false, many physiological alterations do occur in microgravity conditions.
  • (14) The intensive-care pediatrician who prophesies to parents that their child's illness is irreversible may encounter denial and hostility.
  • (15) It’s impossible to say who will win Unite’s election, but the outcome is not a prophesy for Unite’s support of Corbyn Thus, if Coyne was to become the next general secretary of Unite, it’s likely he would find his hands are tied.
  • (16) When he first read Heart of Darkness , Lindqvist took Conrad to be prophesying what was coming rather than writing about what he had seen.
  • (17) It would be ironic were the trash talk to become a self-fulfilling prophesy, resulting in weaker than expected growth, revenue downgrades and a budget deficit blow out.
  • (18) "The contagion that is eating its way through the Spanish and Italian and other European bond markets has a self-prophesying element to it.
  • (19) Labour in turmoil as it tries to prophesy its future from its past Read more Harman, who will call for non-party members to be invited to public hustings in parts of the country where Labour failed to win, will say: “We will have strict rules to ensure there is a level playing field for each one of the candidates.
  • (20) Some Chinese people have found less subversive ways of dealing with the prophesy.

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