(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.
Prophetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Prophetical
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(2) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(3) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(4) And it was inevitable that Arabic character should precede over the character of the muhajireen, for the language of the Qur’an is Arabic, and the prophetic hadiths [sayings] are in Arabic and the customs of Islamic society were Arabic in great part, and in view of the nature of the local society of the peoples of Syria it was inevitable that Arabic character should be cultivated in the language and religious culture in the muhajireen and laying aside the foreign identity that bears in its hidden nature hostility to Islam, its culture and its roots.
(5) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(6) And the Prophet (peace be upon him) was considered the master of the global Islamic message; it was necessary for him to be acquainted with what was happening around him in the neighbouring states, and knowing their latest affairs and thus inviting them to Islam.
(7) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(8) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(9) A prophetic anti-Cosby exchange makes the show all the more relevant.
(10) In a landmark speech in Cairo three years ago, Obama promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between his country and the Islamic world, but that relationship is now at its lowest point since the start of the Arab spring as a result of a YouTube video clip made by an Egyptian American insulting the prophet Mohamed.
(11) Despite what is often said, mostly by those who haven't read it, the book does not take direct aim at Islam or its prophet.
(12) Vilks, 68, outraged many Muslims in 2007 after he depicted the prophet Muhammad’s head on the body of a dog.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) In the packed cafe area at the top of Libération’s offices, where the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo have been working since Friday, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard held up the new edition of the magazine, which features a picture of the prophet Muhammad crying below the words “All is forgiven”.
(15) Younger persons can facilitate such growth for themselves and their elders by helping the aging to function as "prophets" for the younger.
(16) The prophets of doom will undeniably be proved right in the long run unless their basic assumptions are nullified by concrete acts, and soon.
(17) Also, it’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexuality; it wasn’t until some years after his death that Muslims began discussing what a suitable punishment might be.
(18) Prenatal care consisted of consultation with a prophet, wearing amulets, using herbal concoctions for bathing and drinking, and injections of herbal power to keep evil spirits away and guarantee safe delivery.
(19) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(20) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.