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prophecyn. Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Perhaps also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French profescie , profecie ; Latin prophetia ; prophet n., -y suffix3. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman profescie, prophecie, prophessie, prophetie, prephecie and Old French profecie, profetie, Old French, Middle French prophecie, prophetie, Middle French prophesie, professie, Middle French, French prophétie prediction by way of divine inspiration (1119 in Anglo-Norman), one or more predictions made by a highly respected person, without being divinely inspired (1155), any kind of prediction or presaging of a future event by intuition or conjecture (1228), song of Zacharias in the Gallican liturgy (1719 or earlier in the passage translated in quot. 1730 at sense 4b) and its etymon post-classical Latin prophetia, prophecia action or faculty of prophesying, spoken or written utterances of a prophet or prophets, interpretation and expounding of the Bible (Vetus Latina, Vulgate, early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), prophetical books of the Old Testament, song of Zacharias in the Gallican liturgy (6th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek προϕητεία action or faculty of prophesying, spoken or written utterances of a prophet or prophets, interpretation and expounding of the Bible (Septuagint, New Testament) < ancient Greek προϕήτης prophet n. + -ία -y suffix3. In sense 3, which is apparently not paralleled in either French or Latin, perhaps independently < prophet n. + -y suffix3 (compare -cy suffix).Compare Old Occitan profecia , prophetia (both mid 13th cent.; also prophesia , prophecia ; Occitan profecia ), Catalan profecia (c1200 as †prophecia ), Spanish profecía (late 12th cent.), Portuguese profecia (13th cent.; also †prophecia ), Italian profezia (mid 13th cent.; also †profetia , †prophetia , †prophezia ). Compare also ( < Latin) Middle Dutch prophecie , prophetie (Dutch profetie ), Middle Low German profētīe , profēcīe , early modern German prophecie (German †Prophezei ; the usual German word is Prophezeiung : see prophesying n.). In sense 5a after early modern German profezei (probably a1530 in this sense, in the context of the Reformation in Zürich); compare prophesying n. 2b. For the historical development of the standard spelling, see discussion at prophesy v. With forms in pre- compare discussion at pro- prefix1. 1. society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [noun] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 124 Sein Iohan þe baptiste..in his borne time vnspennede his fader tunge into prophecie. c1300 SS. Philip & James (Laud) 30 in C. Horstmann (1887) 364 For prophesie and riȝtw[i]snesse huy heolden al þat he seide. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiii. 2 If I schal haue prophesye and haue knowun all mysteries..if I schal not haue charite, I am noȝt. c1450 (Coventry) (1973) 124 (MED) Also the prophete Isaie Of Criste þat made his prophecie. a1500 Legend of Cross in (1965) 34 216 (MED) Therfor Moises..toke vp tho roddis and with a spirite of prophecie cried: ‘Verily, thiese iii roddis shewen the Holy Trynite.’ 1563 N. Winȝet (1888) I. 90 Serapion, quha..wes illuminat be the spirit of prophetie. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine xv. xxiii. 563 Wee do worthily beleeue that the 70. had the spirit of prophecy. 1693 W. Penn §463. 132 Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight. 1785 W. Cowper vi. 748 Sweet is the harp of prophecy; too sweet Not to be wrong'd by a mere mortal touch. 1823 J. Keble (1848) iii. 44 Prophecy, or the authorized declaration of God's will. 1886 C. A. Briggs i. 1 Prophecy is religious instruction. It is an essential feature of the religion of cultivated nations. 1917 J. V. Bartlet & A. J. Carlyle ii. 41 The more self-conscious and controlled exposition of Divine things known as ‘prophecy’. 1987 J. W. de Gruchy ii. 67 The question we now have to ask is whether there is any continuity between this prophetic tradition and prophecy in the church as it is portrayed in the New Testament? 2003 J. P. Berkey ix. 90 The critical doctrine that Muhammad was the ‘seal’ of prophets, in the sense of having categorically closed the door of prophecy. a1325 (c1280) (Pepys 2344) (1927) 2382 (MED) Alle þing mot neode beo yffolwed and ffolffuld al-so Þat in Moyses lawe and in opere [read oþere] prophecyes beoþ y-do. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham (1902) 46 (MED) Ine þe alde laȝe þe redere Rede þe prophessye By wokke. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 9196 (MED) Þat time was prophet Ieremi Spekand in his propheci. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 1654 (MED) Iaudas of ierusalem..Bringis out a brade buke..plant full of prophasys..Of þe doctrine of Daniell & of his dere sawis. a1500 in R. L. Greene (1977) 71 (MED) Kyng Herrowdes..dede seke up the propheceye. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger xcvii. 676 All the Scripture is called a prophecie, as much as to say divine. 1613 J. Heath tr. P. Du Moulin Pref. sig. A6 The ruine of Ierusalem by Nabuchadnezar did fulfill the Prophecy of Ieremy. 1680 Bp. G. Burnet 140 The 53rd Chapter of the Prophesie of Isaiah. 1727 D. Defoe i. i. 34 The wise Men of Babylon are distinguish'd in the Prophecy of Daniel, into four Classes. 1762 J. Gibson 51 The bounds of this discourse will permit me only to take notice of some of the most remarkable Old Testament prophecies. 1815 Ld. Byron Vision Belshazzar v, in 35 The lamps around were bright, The prophecy in view. 1881 172 The exquisite language of the prophecy of Isaiah, especially in its last three enneads. 1902 A. M. Fairbairn ii. v. 422 To be the Christ of prophecy was to be the Crucified of Judaism. 1916 W. H. P. Faunce in G. B. Smith i. 6 To read, even in translation, an ancient document, like the Apostles' Creed, or the prophecy of Amos, and find out what it meant to the men who first read it. 1941 A. C. Bouquet v. 70 This conjecture is further strengthened by..the recent discovery of a sort of Teutonic eschatological prophecy which bears considerable likeness to a similar Pehlevi writing in Persia. 1999 B. Blackburn & L. Holford-Strevens 17 In his [sc. Malachi's] prophecy (Mal. 4:2) come the words ‘But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.’ 2. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [noun] > instance of c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) 8575 (MED) Hou Merlin doþ his maister Blays In boke writen saun faile Of Inglond þis meruaile And profecies and oþer þing Þat sum beþ passed and sum coming. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 282 (MED) A prophecie sais he salle die. a1500 (Rawl.) (1896) 35 Then was fulfillid a prophesy that Merlynge Sayde. 1543 xcvii. f. xcvi Walshemen..haue such a prophecy [sc. of the reconquest of England]. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel 3 Until the prophesies of Merlin should be fulfilled. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 95 This prophecie Merlin shall make, for I liue before his time. 1653 J. Gauden Pref. sig. b1 A Prophecy; which every opiniaster is prone to imagine strongly portendeth the advancement of his opinion. a1711 T. Ken (1721) I. 86 Dark Prophecies predict our falling State. 1770 W. Guthrie 61 That remarkable mantology, or gift of prophecy, which distinguishes the inhabitants of the Hebrides under the name of second-sight. 1810 W. Scott i. 29 Old Allan-bane foretold your plight,..But light I held his prophecy. 1851 Feb. 197 The now fulfilled prophesies of Illiberalism. 1874 M. Oliphant (1880) 68 The day was fine, notwithstanding the prophecy of ‘saft weather’. 1946 15 June 11/1 Contrary to prophecies of the military experts, the first blow would have been struck not with the atom bomb but with..biological warfare. 1988 C. Hammerschlag (1989) ii. 35 Prophecy had told him that if the Hopi no longer respected their traditions, the land would shrink to nothing. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens i. 3 A scratch is made in the wall and a prophecy given that when the sun's shadow reaches the mark, such-and-such an event will take place. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun] > instance of a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. 1857 (MED) The hound was tokne and prophecie That lich an hound he scholde die. c1425 (1923) 32 (MED) The blesside kyngdome of israel all was as it hadde be one proficye of cryste and of his chirche. a1536 W. Tyndale (?1548) sig. Ciiiv Whose custome of bloudshedyng was..also to be a prophecy of the bloud that shuld be shedde to confyme thys testamente. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius 10 King Richarde..accounting this deede of his Dogge a Prophecy of his ouerthrowe. 1651 Ld. Orrery I. i. vii. 228 This great Conquest over himselfe was but a prophecy of that over his Enemyes, which now was not farre off. 1660 G. Mackenzie i. 15 Hangings, representing Paris choice when he bestowed the Apple upon the fairest (which seemed to be not only a relation of what was past, but also a prophecy of what was to be acted shortly upon that stage). 1744 E. Young 2 The World's a Prophecy of Worlds to come. 1797 M. G. Lewis tr. F. Schiller ii. v. 56 Consider it to be the prophecy of that to which Honour will compel me, should you think proper to force my hand. 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ ii Methinks she was A beautiful prophecy of thee. 1851 N. Hawthorne xvii. 278 The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future. 1915 25 Nov. 4/2 May the spirit of this Convention be a prophecy of that which shall prevail. 1940 T. Hamlin (1944) viii. 142 The skill with which they developed and built arched structures..was a prophecy of the still greater engineering ability which the Romans were to possess. 1998 Jan. 56/1 Lovers of a finespun, operatic cantilena will..find the final Rondo all Spagniola..more than a prophecy of Chopin's E minor Concerto. society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [noun] > person > collective c1400 (?c1380) (1920) 1308 (MED) Nabugodenozar..þe pryce of þe profecie presoners maked. 4. Christian Church. society > faith > worship > parts of service > Old Testament lesson > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > canticle > specific c1450 (1905) II. 324 Þe bisshopp was att mes..and as he lenyd on þe altar, betwix þe prophesie & þe epistull, he fell on slepe. 1853 J. D. H. Dale tr. G. Baldeschi 201 When the Acolyte has finished singing the Prophecy [It. la profezia], he genuflects to the Altar. 1872 W. E. Scudamore 205 In the Milanese [rite] there was..a verse or two sung from the Psalms..between the Prophecy and the Epistles. 1990 K. Levy in R. Crocker & D. Hiley iii. 85 Milan retained the early liturgical custom of having three scriptural lessons in the opening, didactic part of the Mass..—the Prophecy, Epistle, and Gospel. society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > benedictional > [noun] 1730 tr. C. Fleury IV. xxxiv. 270 The Bishops made Palladius officiate, and as he was beginning the Prophecy [Fr. prophétie] which preceded the Epistle, according to the Usage of the Gallican Church, the King asked who he was. 1872 W. E. Scudamore 203 (note) The reader must not be misled by the title Collectio or Oratio post Prophetiam in the Old Gothic, Frank, and Gallican Sacramentaries; for by ‘the Prophecy’ is there meant the Benedictus or Prophecy of Zacharias. 1880 W. E. Scudamore in W. Smith & S. Cheetham II. 1738/1 The prophecy was, on some days, in most of the Gallican liturgies, followed by an ‘Oratio’ or ‘Collectio post Prophetiam’. 1944 J. Norman 159 The Prophecy (Beneductus Domine Deus)..is peculiar to non-Roman Western rites. 1999 A. J. Chupungco III. x. 251 During Lent the Benedictus (prophecy) and the Collectio post prophetiam were ommitted. 5. Christian Church. In Protestant churches chiefly during the Reformation period. society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. v. f. 76/1, in R. Holinshed I In many of our Archedeaconries, we haue an exercise..called a prophecie or conference, and erected only for the examination or triall of the diligence of the cleargie in their study of holy scriptures. 1641 sig. A4 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publike or private fasts, prophesies, or exercises, not approved by Law, or publike Authority? 1709 J. Strype xxxiv. 343 One Thursday in March, at a prophesy (as it was called) in the Dutch Church in London, where Nicolas one of the ministers preached upon the doctrine of regeneration. 1909 II. 593/1 All this was changed at the Reformation... In Zürich there was established the so-called ‘Prophecy’, i.e. the public discussion of Scripture among theological students in the form of debate. society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xiii. 8 Charite fallith not down, where prophecyes [L. prophetiae] schulen be voydid, ether langagis schulen ceesse, ether science schal be distroyed. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) 1 Cor. xiv. 6 What schal I profyte, no but if I schal speke to ȝou ether in reuelacioun, ethir in science, ether in prophecie [L. prophetia], ether in techinge? 1535 G. Joye sig. F.viii In that chap. also [sc. 1 Corinthians 14] what inglissh geueth Tin[dale] these words propheta & prophecie? which signifie there the interpretour & interpretacion or prechyng of holy scriptures.] 1631 J. Winthrop (1825) (modernized text) I. 50 Mr. Wilson, praying and exhorting the congregation to love, etc., commended to them the exercise of prophecy in his absence. a1704 J. Locke (1709) 78 (note) 10 Prophesie comprehends..explaining the mysterious hidden Sense of Scripture by an immediate Illumination and Motion of the Spirit. 1718 v. 17 To exercise Prophecy (i. e. Preaching) by fit and approved Brethren not in Pastoral Office. 1995 J. P. Donnelly tr. P. Melanchthon xiv. 157 ‘To speak in tongues’ is to announce a Scripture text or prayers in some tongue or other; prophecy is the explanation of Scripture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.?c1225 |
