English Dictionary

prophesy

/ˈpɹɒfɪsaɪ/

verb

To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. / To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). / To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

She can prophesy the future with great accuracy.

意味（1）

To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

意味（2）

To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).

Then I perceive that will be verified

Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy

‘If once he come to be a cardinal,

Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy ‘If once he come to be a cardinal, He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’

意味（3）

To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

Methought thy very gait did prophesy

Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.

意味（4）

(intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.

[…] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.