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prophecy
1.
a. a message of divine truth revealing God's will
b. the act of uttering such a message
2. the function, activity, or charismatic endowment of a prophet or prophets
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Prophecy; Prophesy
(religion, spiritualism, and occult)A prophecy is a divinely inspired utterance that foretells events in the future events. The verb differentiation, to prophesy, did not emerge until c.1700. Today, to prophesy is to speak by divine inspiration, or in the name of a deity.
A prophet is regarded as the mouthpiece of deity. He or she does not question deity but, rather, prepares for divine inspiration, making himor herself receptive by prayer and/or fasting.
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Prophecy
See also Omen.
Prosperity (See SUCCESS.)
Ancaeusprophecy that he would not live to taste the wine from his vineyards is fulfilled. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 32]
Roman officials who interpreted omens. [Rom. Hist.: Parrinder, 34]
vaticinally speaks with Jehovah’s voice. [O.T.: Numbers 23:8–10; 24:18–24]
Irish spirit who foretells death. [Irish Folklore: Briggs, 14–16]
disembodied hand foretells Belshazzar’s death. [O.T.: Daniel 5]
picture of world’s condition 600 years from now. [Br. Lit.: Brave New World]
(Martha Jane Canary or Martha Burke, 1852–1903) mannish prophetess of doom. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 71]
declares that Iphigenia must be sacrificed to appease Artemis and ensure the Greeks’ safe passage to Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Hamilton, 261]
sees bloody statue of Julius in dream. [Br. Lit.: Julius Caesar]
the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190]
always accurate but fated to be disbelieved, predicts doom of Troy to brother, Hector. [Br. Lit.: Troilus and Cressida; Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 57]
sibyl to discover future, leads Aeneas to Hades. [Gk. Lit.: Aeneid]
ancient oracular center near Mt. Parnassus. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 74; Jobes, 428]
oldest oracle of Zeus in Greece. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 83]
priest and prophet to the Jews during Babylonian captivity. [O.T.: Ezekiel]
its crowing predicts either peace or disaster. [Russ. Opera: Rimsky-Korsakov, Coq d’Or, Westerman, 392]
sinister omen of death. [Br. Folklore: Briggs, 207–208]
ancient Etruscan seers who divined the future from the entrails of animals. [Rom. Hist.: EB, IV: 933]
tells of impending disaster for the idolatrous. [O.T.: II Kings 22:14–19]
a book of divination and speculations. [Chinese Lit.: I Ching]
foretells fall of Jerusalem; prophet of doom. [O.T.: Isaiah]
the Lord’s herald. [O.T.: Jeremiah]
the Baptist foretells the coming of Jesus. [N.T.: Luke 3:16]
predicted famine from Pharaoh’s dreams. [O.T.: Genesis 41:25–36]
seer who interpreted the words of the Argo’s talking prow. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 684]
(570–632) the prophet of Islam. [Islam. Hist.: NCE, 1854]
(1503–1566) startlingly accurate French astrologer and physician. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1969]
priestess of Apollo, the Delphic Oracle, endowed with prophetic powers. [Gk. Hist.: Collier’s, VII, 682]
a small boy predicts winners in horse races through the medium of a demonic rocking horse. [Br. Lit.: D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner in Benét, 866]
women endowed with prophetic powers who interceded with gods for men. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 239]
nine tomes foretelling Rome’s future. [Rom. Leg.: Brewer Dictionary]
prophet; professed visions of new faith. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 467]
messianic Martian shows earthlings the way. [Am. Lit.: Stranger in a Strange Land]
(Homericae, Virgilianae, Biblicae) fortune-telling by taking random passages from a book (as Iliad, Aeneid, or the Bible). [Eur. Culture: Collier’s, VII, 683]
“the wisest woman in Europe,” cleverly interprets the Tarot cards. [Br. Poetry: T. S. Eliot “The Waste Land”]
cards used to tell fortunes. [Magic: Brewer Dictionary, 1063]
blind and greatest of all mythological prophets. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 255; Gk. Lit.: Antigone; Odyssey; Oedipus Tyrannus]
foretells Gustavus’ murder by his friend Anckarstrom. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, Masked Ball, Westerman, 313–315]
John the Baptist, in reference to his prophecy of the coming of Christ. [N.T.: Matthew 3:3]
three witches who set Macbeth agog with prophecies of kingship. [Br. Lit.: Macbeth]
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