English-Thai Dictionary

soothsay

VI ทำนาย  tam-nai

 

soothsayer

N ผู้ คาดการณ์ อนาคต  ผู้ทำนาย  seer oracle diviner prophet phu-kad-kan-ar-na-kod

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOOTHSAY

v.i.[sooth and say. ] To foretell; to predict. Acts 16:16. [Little used. ]

 

SOOTHSAYER

n.A foreteller; a prognosticator; one who undertakes to foretell future events without inspiration.

 

SOOTHSAYING

n.The foretelling of future events by persons without divine aid or authority, and thus distinguished form prophecy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SOOTHSAY

Sooth "say `, v. i. Etym: [Sooth + say; properly to say truth, tell the truth. ]

 

Defn: To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay. " Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell. " Milton.

 

SOOTHSAY

SOOTHSAY Sooth "say `, n.

 

1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

2. Omen; portent. Having God turn the same to good soothsay. Spenser.

 

SOOTHSAYER

SOOTHSAYER Sooth "say `er, n.

 

1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

 

2. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A mantis.

 

SOOTHSAYING

SOOTHSAYING Sooth "say `ing, n.

 

1. A true saying; truth. [Obs. ]

 

2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination. .. which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

 

3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

soothsayer

sooth say er |ˈso͞oTHˌsāər ˈsuθˌseɪər | ▶noun a person supposed to be able to foresee the future. DERIVATIVES sooth say ing noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘person who speaks the truth ’): see sooth .

 

Oxford Dictionary

soothsayer

sooth |say ¦er |ˈsuːθseɪə | ▶noun a person supposed to be able to foresee the future. DERIVATIVES soothsaying noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘person who speaks the truth ’): see sooth .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

soothsayer

soothsayer noun the most respected of the king's soothsayers: seer, oracle, augur, prophet /prophetess, sage, prognosticator, diviner, fortune teller, crystal-gazer, clairvoyant, psychic; literary sibyl; rare haruspex. WORD NOTE haruspex In the age of bewilderment, when formal religions had not quite yet wholly seized the hearts and minds of the English-speaking people —roughly between the 12th and 16th centuries —much power was given to diviners of one kind or another, men and women who claimed to see signs —indications of future fortune —in a variety of commonplace objects and occurrences. Pessomancers, for example, looked for signs in the random arrangements of pebbles; capnomancers saw signs in smoke; metopomancers studied foreheads; onychomancers claimed to see heavenly indications in the growth of fingernails; and tyromancers found the future in pieces of cheese (for while tyro in Latin means "a young soldier " or more generally, "a beginner, " in Greek it does indeed mean "cheese. ") Ever eager that the language be littered with such words, both to keep the words themselves alive and the writings rich with color, I advocate rediscovering some of the more unusual of the breed, and haruspex fits the bill nicely. It is the kind of soothsayer who offers divinations and diagnoses from examining the entrails of animals: in rural Ecuador, for example, village haruspices (the plural ending follows the Latin ) inspect the insides of dead guinea pigs, the better to cure the patients in their care. — SW Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

soothsayer

soothsayer noun a soothsayer had promised him he should die there. See prophet.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

soothsayer

sooth say er /súːθsèɪə r /名詞 C ｟古 ｠予言者, 占い師 .