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prophesying, vbl. n.|ˈprɒfɪsaɪɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb prophesy; speaking by divine inspiration; foretelling the future; expounding divine mysteries or preaching unto edification, as practised in apostolic times.
1526Tindale 1 Cor. xiv. 6 Excepte I speake vnto you other by revelacion, or knowledge, or prophesying, or doctrine. 1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xxvi. [xxv.] 3 The children of Iedithun.., whose prophecienge was to geue thankes and to praise the Lorde. 1617R. Fenton Treat. Ch. Rome 115 To reforme abuses concerning Praier, and Prophes[y]ing in the Church of Corinth. 1820Keats Hyperion i. 174 So also shuddered he—Not at dog's howl,..Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp.
b. Applied in the 16th and 17th centuries, and by some in later times, to the expounding of Scripture by those who spoke ‘as the Spirit gave them utterance’ in special meetings, or to preaching in public services.
1560–11st Bk. Discipl. Ch. Sc. xii, That Exercise, which Sanct Paull calleth prophecieing. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 42 The woman..sought to gouerne the propheciyng at her pleasure. 1569Golding Heminges Post. Ded. 2 Hee opening the Gospels after the maner of our prophecyings. 1574in Strype Parker iv. xxxvii. (1711) 462, I am commanded.., in the Queen her Majesty's name, that the Prophesyings throughout my Dioces should be suppressed. 1604Bacon Pacif. Ch. Wks. 1879 I. 357/1 [The exercise] called prophesying; which was this: That the ministers within a precinct did meet upon a week day in some principal town... Then every minister successively, beginning with the youngest, did handle one and the same part of Scripture. 1642T. Lechford Plain Dealing (1867) 41 There a Minister..preacheth and exerciseth prayer every Lords day, which is called prophesying in such a place. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. ii. 43 S. Cyprian had not learn'd to forbid to any one a liberty of prophesying or interpretation. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. iv. §2 These prophesyings were founded on the Apostles precept, ‘For, ye may all prophesie one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted’. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 579 Setting up certain exercises, which, by the misapplication of a text of scripture, they called prophesyings. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1857) I. iv. 197 The clergy in several dioceses set up, with encouragement from their superiors, a certain religious exercise, called prophesyings. 1849Stovel Introd. Canne's Necess. 60 The prophesyings here prohibited, formed an administration of divine truth, to which the Puritans adhered as being of Divine authority.
attrib.1679C. Nesse Antichrist 184 When their prophecying-work is done. |