English-Thai Dictionary

prophesy

VI ทำนาย  พยากรณ์  predict prognosticate forecast tam-nai

 

prophesy

VT ทำนาย  พยากรณ์  predict prognosticate forecast tam-nai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PROPHESY

v.t.To foretell future events; to predict. I hate him, for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. 1 Kings 22:8.
1. To foreshow. [Little used. ]

 

PROPHESY

v.i.To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Jeremiah 11:21. 1. In Scripture, to preach; to instruct in religious doctrines; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to exhort. 1 Corinthians 13:9; Ezekiel 37:4, 9.

 

PROPHESYING

ppr. Foretelling events.

 

PROPHESYING

n.The act of foretelling or of preaching.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROPHESY

Proph "e *sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prophesied; p. pr. & vb. n.Prophesying. ] Etym: [See Prophecy. ]

 

1. To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

 

2. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. Shak.

 

PROPHESY

PROPHESY Proph "e *sy, v. i.

 

1. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7.

 

2. To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. Ezek. xxxvii. 7.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prophesy

proph e sy |ˈpräfəˌsī ˈprɑfəˌsaɪ | ▶verb ( prophesies, prophesying, prophesied ) [ with obj. ] say that (a specified thing ) will happen in the future: Jacques was prophesying a bumper harvest | [ with clause ] : the papers prophesied that he would resign after the weekend. DERIVATIVES proph e si er |-ˌsīər |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French profecier, from profecie (see prophecy ). The differentiation of the spellings prophesy and prophecy as verb and noun was not established until after 1700. usage: See usage at prophecy .

 

Oxford Dictionary

prophesy

prophesy |ˈprɒfɪsʌɪ | ▶verb ( prophesies, prophesying, prophesied ) [ with obj. ] say that (a specified thing ) will happen in the future: Jacques was prophesying a bumper harvest | [ with clause ] : the papers prophesied that he would resign after the weekend. DERIVATIVES prophesier |-sʌɪə |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French profecier, from profecie (see prophecy ). usage: The words prophesy and prophecy are often confused. Prophesy is the spelling that should be used for the verb ( he was prophesying a bumper harvest ), whereas prophecy is the correct spelling for the noun ( a bleak prophecy of war and ruin ). The differentiation between the spellings of the noun and verb was not established until after 1700 and has no etymological basis, prophesy being at first a spelling variant of both the noun and the verb.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

prophesy

prophesy verb did those mystical sages ever prophesy anything other than calamity? predict, foretell, forecast, foresee, forewarn of, prognosticate.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

prophesy

prophesy verb many commentators prophesied disaster: predict, foretell, forecast, foresee, forewarn of, prognosticate, divine; archaic augur, presage, previse, foreshow, croak; Scottish archaic spae; rare vaticinate, auspicate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prophesy

proph e sy /prɑ́fəsàɪ |prɔ́f -/動詞 -sies ; -sied ; ～ing 自動詞 «…を » 予言 [予測 ]する «of » .他動詞 〖～ that節 /wh節 〗…という […かという ]予言 [予測 ]をする .