different between prophesy vs suspect

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

English

Etymology

From Old French suspect, from Latin suspectus, perfect passive participle of suspici? (“mistrust, suspect”), from sub (“under”), + speci? (“watch, look at”).

Pronunciation

Adjective, noun

• enPR: s?s?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?s?s.p?kt/

Verb

• enPR: s?s.p?kt?, IPA^(key): /s?s?p?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

suspect (third-person singular simple present suspects, present participle suspecting, simple past and past participle suspected)

1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)
3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.

4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

Synonyms

• (imagine or suppose to be true): imagine, suppose, think
• (distrust, have doubts about): distrust, doubt
• (believe to be guilty): accuse, point the finger at

Translations

Noun

suspect (plural suspects)

1. A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
   • 1942, Casablanca, written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch

     Round up the usual suspects.

Derived terms

• suspectless

Translations

Adjective

suspect (comparative more suspect, superlative most suspect)

1. Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
   • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
2. (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
   • 2004, Will Nickell, letter to the editor of Field & Stream, Volume CIX Number 8 (December 2004–January 2005), page 18

     Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.

Synonyms

• (viewed with suspicion): dodgy (informal), doubtful, dubious, fishy (informal), suspicious

Translations

Related terms

• suspicion
• suspicious

Anagrams

• cupsets, suscept

French

Etymology

Latin suspectus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.p?/

Adjective

suspect (feminine singular suspecte, masculine plural suspects, feminine plural suspectes)

1. suspicious; suspect

Derived terms

• suspectement

Usage notes

• The -ct- becomes audible in the feminine forms (as [kt]). It is one of very few adjectives in which two mute consonants reappear.

Noun

suspect m (plural suspects, feminine suspecte)

1. a suspect

Further reading

• “suspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French suspect, from Latin suspectus.

Adjective

suspect m or n (feminine singular suspect?, masculine plural suspec?i, feminine and neuter plural suspecte)

1. suspicious, doubtful

Declension