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prophesy vt.
vi. 预言,预报 预言,预报 prophesy v 1: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration [synonym: {prophesy}, {vaticinate}] 2: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" [synonym: {preach}, {prophesy}] Prophesy \Proph"e*sy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prophesied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prophesying}.] [See {Prophecy}.] 1. To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. [1913 Webster] He doth not prophesy good concerning me. --1 Kings xxii. 8. [1913 Webster] Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. [1913 Webster] Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Prophesy \Proph"e*sy\, v. i. [1913 Webster] 1. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. --Matt. xv. 7. [1913 Webster] 2. To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. --Ezek. xxxvii. 7. [1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for "prophesy":
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
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