What is "prophesy"

Usage examples of "prophesy".

Arthur felt with something like a shudder that, if Lady Bellamy prophesied evil, evil was following hard upon her words.

The sun duly appeared, as bullen had prophesied, and later disappeared, also as he had prophesied.

As Marjorie had prophesied, there was a long line of carriages waiting to set their passengers down before Lowy House.

I Fitted am to prophesy: No, but when the spirit fills The fantastic pannicles, Full of fire, then I write As the Godhead doth indite.

He was Prime Predictor because the prophesies he had registered in the Archives as a youth had been more accurate than the vision of any other Kaiel.

When we bear in mind the tendency of any language, if it once attains a certain predominance, to supplant all others, and when we look at the map of the world and see the extent now in the hands of the two English-speaking nations, I think it may be prophesied that the language in which this book is written will one day be almost as familiar to the greater number of Ticinesi as their own.

Jenkins was always prophesying that patients would be gone tomorrow, and the failure of her prognostications to come true never seemed to induce in her a more hopeful attitude.

Then blessed he them with the blessings of Jacob the patriarch, and of Moses the servant of God, like unto the age and spiritual bearing of whom he appeared, prophesying, and praying, if their deeds agreed with their words, that they might be unconquered and fortunate, but weak and unhappy if ever they falsified their vows.

It is possible that Sire Robert may have told him that he had a damsel at Vaucouleurs who was prophesying concerning the realm of France.

Mousque counselled him not to advance any further, prophesying that he would not return.

I stay any longer, you will be prophesying my acceptance of Christianity.

She tried to dissuade me, telling me that such an attempt was foredoomed to failure and prophesying that I would be recaptured.

He went down first into the dank cellars of the Observatory of Paris, that famous Observatory where worked the great Le Verrier, who had done the proud feat of prophesying the existence of the planet Neptune.

It was the business of Calchas to go about looking at birds, and taking omens from what he saw them doing, a way of prophesying which the Romans also used, and some savages do the same to this day.

Is it because their gods are capricious, because there is so much divining, reading of signs, and prophesying that much of it must be contradictory or ambiguous, even if all is false?