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French prophet whose predictions are often shoehorned into describing modern events
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nostradamus
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Nostradamus is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest , focusing on the 16th-century writer Nostradamus . It is a double album. The band's first concept album with Rob Halford, it was originally intended to be released in late ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a prophet, seer, a fortune-teller," 1660s, from Latinized name of Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), French physician and astrologer, who published a collection of predictions in 1555.
Usage examples of nostradamus.
If He wishes to trace out His gifts in the stars for Nostradamus to pluck out, that is His will.
No telling how long Nostradamus would remain in Aix-en-Provence andan icy wind whirling up out of his intuate talent and the rapport binding the two of them insisted urgently that Venus Trine was in terrible danger.
Wherever Nostradamus went, there were demands on his astrological talents.
Jon told him as much as was needful, ending with a fervent plea that Nostradamus use his influence with the count and the mayor to free Amabel-Venus.
How could Jonor the great Nostradamus, for that matterever convince this blood-hungry mob of a truth as fantastic as the real truth?
There was some fussing and rearranging to be made among the nobles and during this time Jon saw Nostradamus, after one long, searching look at Amabel in her chains, swivel his great head ponderously across the crowd in all directions.
Then Jon saw de Guynaud lean toward Nostradamus and say something, after which the giant man plucked a crimson kerchief from his sleeve and waved it in the direction of the waiting mayor.
Evil One is, how he might even trick Nostradamus into misreading what the stars have foretold!
The mayor had strutted importantly up and down, expecting Nostradamus to move back to his chair so that the burning could commence.
Nothing but his wits and his wordsand had not Nostradamus said it all?
Jon saw Nostradamus, after one long, searching look at Amabel in her chains, swivel his great head ponderously across the crowd in all directions.
Barbezieux doubtless did not evince such scorn for this compatriot of Nostradamus as would have been shown in his place by a man of broader mind.
In 1693, there had just been published a book of the prophecies of Nostradamus showing how they had been fulfilled in history from the reign of Henry II down to that of Louis the Great.
The mist, the ghostly countenance, the predictions of Nostradamus, all gone.
The Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus, edited by Cynthia Sternau and Martin H.