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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOOTHSAYING

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

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.