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prophesy

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?p??f?sa?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?p??f?sa?/

Verb

prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)

  1. To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. [from 14th c.]
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Joel 2:28,[1]
      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:
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Not every day fit for Verse” in Hesperides, London: John Williams & Francis Eglesfield, p. 285,[2]
      ’Tis not ev’ry day, that I
      Fitted am to prophesie:
      No, but when the Spirit fils
      The fantastick Pannicles:
      Full of fier; then I write
      As the Godhead doth indite.
    • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Oxford: Heinemann, 1996, Part One, Chapter Eleven, p. 70,[3]
      […] at that very moment a loud and high-pitched voice broke the outer silence of the night. It was Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, prophesying. There was nothing new in that. Once in a while Chielo was possessed by the spirit of her god and she began to prophesy.
  2. To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). [from 14th c.]
    • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
      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.’
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 22:8,[5]
      He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
    • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 5,[6]
      People prophesied a long continuance to this already lengthened frost; said the spring would be very late; no spring fashions required; no summer clothing purchased for a short uncertain summer.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 745:
      ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
  3. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, Scene 3,[7]
      Methought thy very gait did prophesy
      A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
  4. (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach. [from 14th c.]
    • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,[8]
      […] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.

Related terms

  • prophecy
  • prophesier
  • prophesize (nonstandard)
  • prophet
  • prophetic
  • prophetize

Translations

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foreknow

English

Etymology

From Middle English forknowen, equivalent to fore- +? know. Replaced Old English f?rwitan, f?rewitan (“to foreknow”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?f???n??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?f???no?/

Verb

foreknow (third-person singular simple present foreknows, present participle foreknowing, simple past foreknew, past participle foreknown)

  1. To have knowledge of beforehand.
    • God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
    • 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confe??ion of the Fraternity of R: C: Commonly, of the Ro?ie Cro?s; with a Præface annexed thereto, and a ?hort Declaration of their Phy?icall Work (London, Printed by J. M. for Giles Calvert, at the black ?pread Eagle at the We?t end of Pauls), pages 1–2 of “The Epi?tle to the Wi?e and Under?tanding Reader”
      Wi?dom…is to a man an infinite Trea?ure, for ?he is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ?he is the Brightne?s of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Maje?ty of God, and an Image of his Goodne?s; ?he teacheth us Soberne?s and Prudence, Righteou?ne?s and Strength; ?he under?tands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ?entences; ?he foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ?hall happen in time to come.

Related terms

  • foreknowledge

Translations

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  • what does foreknew mean in greek
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