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prophetic, a.|prəʊˈfɛtɪk|
[a. F. prophétique (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. late L. prophētic-us (a 200 in Itala), a. Gr. προϕητικ-ός: see prophet n. and -ic.]
1. Of, pertaining or proper to a prophet or prophecy; having the character or function of a prophet.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iv. 72 A Sybill..In her Prophetticke furie sow'd the Worke. 1632Milton Penseroso 174 Till old experience do attain To something like Prophetic strain. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 135 Shaw-meer-Ally-Hamzy a prophetique Mahomitan. 1761Gray Descent Odin 20 The dust of the prophetic Maid. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 195 That their preachers should confine themselves wholly to the Gospel and the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures. 1865Grote Plato II. xxiv. 213 A prophetic woman named Diotima. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 301 Puritanism showed both the strength and weakness of its prophetic nurture.
b. Liturgics. prophetic lesson (L. lectio prophetica): see quot. 1878.
1872Scudamore Notitia Euch. 206 [tr. St. Germanus] The Prophetic Lesson keeps its due place, rebuking evil things and announcing future. [1878Hammond Antient Liturgies Gloss. 384 Prophetica lectio (or Propheta), (Gall.), The Lection from the Old Testament, which..in the Gallican Liturgy preceded the Epistle and Gospel.]
c. prophetic present, prophetic perfect: the present or perfect tense used to express a certain future.
1882Farrar Early Chr. xxii. II. 67 note, The perfects [in James v. 2, 3] are prophetic perfects; they express absolute certainty as to the ultimate result. 1884G. H. Webster Gram. New Eng. 116 Both the Historic and the Prophetic Present use a past and a future, as though they expressed the present of absolute time. Ibid. 117 A Prophetic preterit occurs when the simple preterit is used in the description of future contingent events.
2. Characterized by, containing, or of the nature of prophecy or prediction; predictive, presageful.
1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 126 Now heare me speake with a propheticke spirit. 1605― Macb. i. iii. 78 Say..why Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way With such Prophetique greeting? 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §49 He quickly found how Prophetick the last King's Predictions had proved. a1771Gray Dante 27 Sleep Prophetic of my Woes. 1881M. E. Herbert Edith 24, I feel that woman's words are prophetic.
3. Spoken of in prophecy; predicted.
1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxxi. 187 There may be attributed to God, a two-fold Kingdome, Naturall, and Prophetique. 1798Anti-Jacobin No. 8 (1799) 273 Sober plodding Money-lenders..little in the habit of lending their Funds on prophetic Mortgages.
4. Comb. prophetic-eyed a., having a prophetic eye or outlook.
1847Emerson Poems, May-day 61 The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed, Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves. |