propheticaladj.n.

c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) 1176 She had this prophetycall honoure Of Hym, that is of rightwysness the son.

?1532 Glasse of Truthe sig. C5^v The prophetical and holy Scripture is not of mans interpretacion.

1551 J. Hooper Godly Annot. xiij Chapyter Romaynes sig. Dv A true old and patriarchall, prophetical, and apostolicall fayth.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 70 As the Propheticall Psalmist singeth.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage v. ii. 390 One of those youths, in that Propheticall distraction before mentioned, warned them to depart from thence.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. vii. 76 They had Recourse to the whole Train of prophetical Divinities.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. ii. 67 After speaking of Prophetical Enthusiasm, and establishing..a Legitimate and a Bastard-sort.

1780 G. Horne Serm. before House Commons 9 Language sinks under the prophetical writers, and creation seems unable to supply them with an adequate image.

1831 T. Carlyle Let. 22 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1976) V. 352 They were all prophetical, Toryish, ultra-religious.

1888 A. Cave Inspiration Old Test. v. 277 The prophetical writers prior to the exilian period.

1939 W. Y. Tindall D. H. Lawrence & Susan his Cow i. 23 He continued to prophesy and to make prophetical heroes in his own image.

1976 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 30 Jan. 8/1 Jesus had a prophetical view about religion and stresed the spiritual.

2001 M. A. Sweeney King Josiah of Judah Introd. 14 The third major area involved in the study of King Josiah and his reign pertains to the prophetical literature,..including Jeremiah, Nahum, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxix. f. 319^v What greater pleasure my louing wench can there happen vnto your seruant, than to see the accomplishment of this Prophetical song?

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E4^v The reprehension of Saint Paule, was not onely proper for those times, but prophetical for the times following. View more context for this quotation

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 269 The Man, whom the Pope in a Prophetical dream saw supporting his Lateran Church from falling.

1741 Mem. & Char. 235 He seemed to be very prophetical of the ensuing Times of Troubles, as may evidently appear by his Sermons before the King.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. ix. 200 A prophetical oration announced that the future line from Charles would not be less numerous.

1927 E. F. Benson Lucia in London (1968) xi. 288 I never heard of anything so extraordinary... It was prophetical.

1992 D. Hempton & M. Hill Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society i. 13 The main facts of the case are easily authenticated but not the prophetical dreams of the Methodist faithful.

1615 J. Sylvester Memory of Margarite in Wks. (1880) II. 294 One night, two dreams made two propheticals: Thine, of thy Coffin; mine, of thy Funerals.

1653 H. Whistler Aime at Up-shot Infant Baptisme 99 By plain coherence of these Propheticalls it appeareth.

1781 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg True Christian Relig. I. iv. 335 Those Books were the ancient Word, whose Historicals were called The Wars of Jehovah, and whose Propheticals were called Denunciations.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 284 [On B. Jonson's Bartholmew Fayre] An odd sort of propheticality in this Numps and old Noll!

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Propheticalness..prophetical Nature or Quality.

1913 M. T. Houtsma et al. Encycl. Islam I. 26/2 The latter asserted that both the godhead and the propheticalness were united inhis person.