prophecy

• prophecie (obsolete)

From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin prophētīa, from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, “prophecy”), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “I tell”). Displaced native Old English wītgung.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒfɨsi/
• (General American) enPR: prŏfʹĭ-sē, IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑfɪ̈si/

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prophecy (countable and uncountable, plural prophecies)

1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.

2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

• propheciographer
• prophetation
• propheticism
• propheticly
• prophetly
• prophetocracy
• prophetry
• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self-defeating prophecy

• prophesy
• prophet
• prophetic

prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophecies, present participle prophecying, simple past and past participle prophecied)

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 53:

     […] think of the kind pains you took to reason and persuade me out of my fears, convince me that I should like it after a little while, and feel how right you proved to be, I am inclined to hope you may always prophecy as well.

   • 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:

     The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

   • 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142:

     One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]

   • 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135:

     The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.

   • 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85:

     the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

prophecy

1. Alternative form of prophecie