† fore-prophesyv.
Obsolete.
transitive and intransitive. To prophesy beforehand. (Frequent in 16–17th centuries.)
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (intransitive)]
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (transitive)]
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 379 When as we promise or foreprophecy in the name and person of God, thinges to come to passe.
1654 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) i. 16 Who spake by the Spirit of God: Fore-seeing and fore-prophesying of those things which we now see are come to pass.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 486 Foreprophesying that they would be employed against themselves.
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