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单词 prophesier
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prophesiern.

Brit. /ˈprɒfᵻsʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈprɑfəˌsaɪ(ə)r/
Forms: late Middle English–1600s prophecier, 1500s proficier, 1500s propheciar, 1500s– prophesier, 1700s prophesyer.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prophesy v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < prophesy v. + -er suffix1.
A person who or thing which prophesies; a prophet; esp. a person who predicts or foretells something. Also: spec. a Puritan preacher (cf. prophesy v. 3, prophesying n. 2) (now historical).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > a prophet or seer
witiec897
seera1382
before-speakerc1400
prophesier1477
spaeman?a1505
vaticinarc1550
destinator1579
mantist1588
vident1588
vates1625
fatary1652
faticane1652
vaticinator1652
visionist1665
visionary1706
visioner1716
weird-man1806
spaer1820
spae-wright1876
percipient1883
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > Puritan
prophesier1631
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 6 God..hath establisshed prophetes & propheciers [Fr. Et dieu..leur a estably propres prophetes].
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xx The Lorde Percy and Owen Glendor wer vnwisely made beleue by a Welsh Prophecier that King Henry was the Moldwarpe.
1598 R. Tofte To Pictvre Mistris in Alba sig. B Like to the Porpose (Tempests prophesier) I play before the storme of my sad Teares.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 54 These Renegadoes are (at this day) diuided, and subdiuided into..many seuerall Sects... As into Brownists, Barowists, Martinists, Prophesiers,..&c.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 57 Lawes..enacted against..Prophesiers, Predictors, Circulatours, Joculators, or Iugglers.
1709 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 5) 267 Nereus..became a famous Prophesier.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1764) iv. 217 Temporal Prosperity was not excluded from the Prophesyer's Thoughts.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 478 What meant that old proser and prophesier?
1928 Times 2 Feb. 19/3 While I have no desire to pose as a prophesier of pleasant things, I may say this.
1942 J. Bainbridge in M. Crane Roosevelt Era (1947) 492 There have been recorders of wars past, prophesiers of wars to come,..and historians who told how and why they happened.
1988 P. U. Bonomi Under Cope of Heaven ii. 18 As settlement spread out from Boston the regulation of religious life loosened further, and soon lay preachers and prophesiers made their appearance.
2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 17 Apr. a17 For prophesiers of Canada's imminent demise, the slide into oblivion begins with the reduction of the Liberal party to a rump of seats in Quebec.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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