What is "soothsayer"

Usage examples of "soothsayer".

A multitude of whelps came forth from the lair of this barbaric lioness, in three cyuls, as they call them, that is, in there ships of war, with their sails wafted by the wind and with omens and prophecies favourable, for it was foretold by a certain soothsayer among them, that they should occupy the country to which they were sailing three hundred years, and half of that time, a hundred and fifty years, should plunder and despoil the same.

Every Chinese house is built on the principles of geomancy, which do not admit of straight lines, and were these to be disregarded the astrologers and soothsayers under whose auspices all houses are erected, predict fearful evils to the impious builders.

Pontifex Prankipin and the Coronal Lord Confalume, Gopak Semivinvor had developed a profound faith in the ability of soothsayers to foretell the future.

Leonardo had finished a masterpiece on which he spent three years of hard labor, but had he also completed the terrible iconographic program that the Soothsayer had tried to stop at all costs?

Sick of a surfeit of pleasures, the whining monarch, counselled by his soothsayers, ransacked his kingdom for the shirt of a happy subject.

You will tell us how your barbarian soothsayers could reach Scapula and then how we might stop them from similarly assailing the person of the emperor.

There shall not be found among you anyone who: practices witchcraft, is a soothsayer or a sorcerer, interprets omens, conjures spells, is a medium or a spiritist, calls up the dead.

Soothsayers and ayurvedic doctors and professional ear cleaners plied their trades on steps beneath temple eaves.

Not to forget her books, her mirrors, her astronomical tools and her own private Chaldaean soothsayer.

Lying awake in bed, night after night while Alix slept, she would remember how her girlfriends whispered when Marin Corbina, the flamboyant and disreputable soothsayer who lived in the St.

Curzio Inghirami, a nobleman of Volterra, found a linen scroll, with both Latin and Etruscan writing, supposedly inscribed by an ancient soothsayer.

They had passed beyond the city into a great promenade of stalls and booths and garish lights, sweetshops, wheels of chance, bumper cars, barkers, soothsayers, and drunks, dressed in all the colors of the spectrum, because for the three nights of the festival, obligations of class were forgotten and people mixed freely.

But the soothsayer wore heavy makeup and a bright plastic wrap around the hyperencephalic head, hiding the feedlines and implants.

The Reithrese soothsayers were working from that same prophecy, but their translation may have been different from ours.

As I grew older, there were many soothsayers who predicted I would become a great leader and hero.