propheticadj.

Brit.

/prəˈfɛtɪk/, U.S.

/prəˈfɛdɪk/,

/proʊˈfɛdɪk/

Forms: late Middle English prophetik, late Middle English prophetyk, late Middle English prothetyke (transmission error), 1500s–1600s propheticke, 1600s prophetique, 1600s prophettique, 1600s–1700s prophetick, 1600s– prophetic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prophétique; Latin propheticus.

Etymology: < Middle French prophétique (French prophétique ) of or relating to a prophecy or prophecies (late 14th cent.), of, relating to, or befitting a prophet (c1600) and its etymon post-classical Latin propheticus uttered or written by a prophet (Vetus Latina), of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet, characteristic of a prophecy, predicting something (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), spoken of in prophecy (4th cent.), (in grammar, of a tense other than a future tense) used to express a future action or event (1758 in the source translated in quot. 1787 at sense 4) < Hellenistic Greek προϕητικός uttered by a prophet, characteristic of a prophet, having the character or function of a prophet < ancient Greek προϕήτης prophet n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan profetic (second half of the 14th cent.), Spanish profético (second half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese profético (15th cent.), Italian profetico (a1321), and also Middle Low German profētisch , German prophetisch (14th cent.). Compare earlier prophetical adj.

1. Of, relating to, befitting, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; having the character or function of a prophet.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective]

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weirdc1400

propheticalc1450

propheticc1484

vaticinant1490

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spaeing?a1505

vaticinal1587

mantical1588

vatical1594

vatic1603

fatidical1608

vaticinating1634

fatiloquent1656

vaticinian1656

fatidic1671

fateful1720

vaticinatric1729

seer-like1816

mantic1839

fatidicating1867

vaticinatory1883

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [adjective]

propheticalc1450

propheticc1484

prophetly1579

fateful1720

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 129 (MED) Þat I haue told þe now, it is breuely phylosophyk or prophetyk wysdam.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 84 (MED) His divine light toke away the clowdy light of inspiracions prophetikis [v.r. prothetykes].

1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D3^v You propheticke asse, Know you noe better what shall come to passe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 72 A Sybell..In her prophetique fury, sowed the worke.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 135 Shaw-meer-Ally-Hamzy a prophetique Mahomitan.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 365 Commit not thy prophetick Mind To flitting Leaves, the sport of ev'ry Wind: Lest they disperse in Air our empty Fate.

1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 89 The dust of the prophetic Maid.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xx. 189 The devout Lactantius announces, in a prophetic tone, the future glories of his long and universal reign.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 128 Meanwhile, prophetic harps in every grove were ringing.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 195 Their preachers should confine themselves wholly to the Gospel and the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures.

1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiv. 213 A prophetic woman named Diotima.

1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 247 ‘There's black days coming for us all and for everybody,’ he repeated with a prophetic gloom.

1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned xvii. 242 She steamed open letters to improve her sorcery and sharpen her prophetic insight.

2001 Guardian 31 Mar. i. 23/3 Should apostolic, teaching and prophetic ministry be as inclusive as presbyteral and pastoral ministry?

2. Characterized by, containing, or of the nature of a prophecy or prediction; that predicts or presages something.In some contexts difficult to distinguish from sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective]

prognostical?a1450

prognostica1500

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prognosticable1562

prophetical1567

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predictive1637

foretellinga1640

predictory1641

forespeaking1650

predictionala1661

prognosticatory1693

prognosticative1813

proleptic1858

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 126 Now heare me speake with a propheticke spirit.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 76 Say..why Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way With such Prophetique greeting?

1665 J. Spencer Disc. conc. Vulgar Prophecies sig. A3 It came to pass that every..crazy Fancy and Dream [was] dub'd a Prophetick Vision.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 21 He quickly found how Prophetick the last King's Predictions had proved.

a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 158 Sleep Prophetic of my Woes.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 189 We..beheld our poor Phoebe..assume strange, shy ways, prophetic of old-maidenhood and a cheerless future.

1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 24 I feel that woman's words are prophetic.

1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare ii. 14 That sonnet was prophetic: it was far in advance of the rest of his work at the moment.

1940 N. Coward Australia Visited ii. 9 Many of those in high places..dismissed his [sc. Winston Churchill's] eloquent prophetic words as alarmist warmongering.

1993 Atlantic Oct. 124/3 The comparisons were prophetic of the McCarthyism to come.

3. Spoken of or referred to in prophecy; predicted.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective] > spoken of in prophecy

prophetic1651

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 There may be attributed to God, a two-fold Kingdome, Naturall, and Prophetique.

1682 J. Shirley Eccl. Hist. Epitomiz'd 37 And now the Prophetick time being expired, at the end of which the Messiah was to come, he was looked for by most of the Jewish Rabbins.

1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. 58 Christ himself was..far from giving them any Hope or Expectation of their prophetic Kingdom.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 1 Jan. 64/1 Sober plodding Money-lenders..little in the habit of lending their Funds on prophetic Mortgages.

1857 J. A. Heraud Judgem. of Flood (rev. ed.) xii. ii. 353 Nor was forgotten that prophetic time, When Eden's peace shall reign once more on earth.

1900 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 24 Dec. 7/4 Thus is indicated the beginnings of the Prophetic kingdom which shall never end!

1960 J. Parkes Found. Judaism & Christianity iii. 150 The actual Jesus came to dominate over the imaginary Jesus of apocalyptic and the prophetic day of the Lord.

2005 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 2 Nov. d1 It's the End of Days, the prophetic time of reckoning.

4. Grammar. Of a tense other than a future tense: used to express a certain future.

ΚΠ

1787 G. Gregory tr. J. D. Michaelis in tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. xv. 337 But however they may chuse to distinguish it, whether as a prophetic present or a prophetic preterite, it is by no means unusual in the more modern languages.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity II. xxii. 67 (note) The perfects [in James 5:2, 3] are prophetic perfects; they express absolute certainty as to the ultimate result.

1884 G. H. Webster Gram. New Eng. 116 Both the Historic and the Prophetic Present use a past and a future, as though they expressed the present of absolute time.

1938 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 59 39 There are prophetic present imperatives as well as indicatives.

1960 T. Menzel tr. T. Andrae Mohammed iii. 53 His listeners misunderstood his use of the prophetic present tense.

2000 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 318. 80/2 Nor can it easily account for forms like the qatal prophetic perfect.

Compounds

prophetic-eyed adj. having a prophetic eye or outlook.

ΚΠ

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 6 The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed, Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves.

1919 W. H. Robinson Story Arizona Pref. 9 The prophetic-eyed reclaimers of the desert.

1992 tr. S. Parnok in Slavic Rev. 51 221 To a simple homestead, to that land where my fragile voice was once heard, I shall come for a prophetic-eyed look.

prophetic lesson n. now historical [after post-classical Latin lectio prophetica a reading of the Old Testament prophets (4th cent.), the Old Testament lesson at Mass (9th cent. or earlier)] a reading from one of the books of the Old Testament, esp. when given as the first lesson at the Eucharist or Mass; cf. prophet n. 4, prophecy n. 4a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > parts of service > Old Testament lesson > [noun]

prophecyc1450

prophetic lesson1787

prophet1832

1787 C. Davy Lett. to Young Gentleman II. x. 177 The same observation may be made upon some of the prophetic lessons; if the parts of these were read by different canons from opposite sides of the church, it would contribute to render them..more striking to the intelligent hearer.

1872 W. E. Scudamore Notitia Eucharistica 206 [tr. St Germanus] The Prophetic Lesson [L. lectio prophetica] keeps its due place, rebuking evil things and announcing future.

1910 Catholic Encycl. IX. 194/1 The church of St. Clement at Rome..has a third ambo for the prophetic lesson.

1994 R. Hutton Rise & Fall Merry Eng. (1996) i. 20 The two processions met, and one or more people read or sang the prophetic lesson.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prophetic
释义	propheticadj. Brit. /prəˈfɛtɪk/, U.S. /prəˈfɛdɪk/, /proʊˈfɛdɪk/ Forms: late Middle English prophetik, late Middle English prophetyk, late Middle English prothetyke (transmission error), 1500s–1600s propheticke, 1600s prophetique, 1600s prophettique, 1600s–1700s prophetick, 1600s– prophetic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prophétique; Latin propheticus. Etymology: < Middle French prophétique (French prophétique ) of or relating to a prophecy or prophecies (late 14th cent.), of, relating to, or befitting a prophet (c1600) and its etymon post-classical Latin propheticus uttered or written by a prophet (Vetus Latina), of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet, characteristic of a prophecy, predicting something (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), spoken of in prophecy (4th cent.), (in grammar, of a tense other than a future tense) used to express a future action or event (1758 in the source translated in quot. 1787 at sense 4) < Hellenistic Greek προϕητικός uttered by a prophet, characteristic of a prophet, having the character or function of a prophet < ancient Greek προϕήτης prophet n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan profetic (second half of the 14th cent.), Spanish profético (second half of the 14th cent.), Portuguese profético (15th cent.), Italian profetico (a1321), and also Middle Low German profētisch , German prophetisch (14th cent.). Compare earlier prophetical adj. 1. Of, relating to, befitting, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; having the character or function of a prophet. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective] witiec897 weirdc1400 propheticalc1450 propheticc1484 vaticinant1490 fatal?1504 spaeing?a1505 vaticinal1587 mantical1588 vatical1594 vatic1603 fatidical1608 vaticinating1634 fatiloquent1656 vaticinian1656 fatidic1671 fateful1720 vaticinatric1729 seer-like1816 mantic1839 fatidicating1867 vaticinatory1883 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [adjective] propheticalc1450 propheticc1484 prophetly1579 fateful1720 c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 129 (MED) Þat I haue told þe now, it is breuely phylosophyk or prophetyk wysdam. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 84 (MED) His divine light toke away the clowdy light of inspiracions prophetikis [v.r. prothetykes]. 1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. D3^v You propheticke asse, Know you noe better what shall come to passe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 72 A Sybell..In her prophetique fury, sowed the worke. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 135 Shaw-meer-Ally-Hamzy a prophetique Mahomitan. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 365 Commit not thy prophetick Mind To flitting Leaves, the sport of ev'ry Wind: Lest they disperse in Air our empty Fate. 1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 89 The dust of the prophetic Maid. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xx. 189 The devout Lactantius announces, in a prophetic tone, the future glories of his long and universal reign. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 128 Meanwhile, prophetic harps in every grove were ringing. View more context for this quotation 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 195 Their preachers should confine themselves wholly to the Gospel and the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures. 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiv. 213 A prophetic woman named Diotima. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiv. 247 ‘There's black days coming for us all and for everybody,’ he repeated with a prophetic gloom. 1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned xvii. 242 She steamed open letters to improve her sorcery and sharpen her prophetic insight. 2001 Guardian 31 Mar. i. 23/3 Should apostolic, teaching and prophetic ministry be as inclusive as presbyteral and pastoral ministry? 2. Characterized by, containing, or of the nature of a prophecy or prediction; that predicts or presages something.In some contexts difficult to distinguish from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [adjective] prognostical?a1450 prognostica1500 foreguessing1548 prognosticable1562 prophetical1567 prospective1581 prophetica1616 predictive1637 foretellinga1640 predictory1641 forespeaking1650 predictionala1661 prognosticatory1693 prognosticative1813 proleptic1858 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 126 Now heare me speake with a propheticke spirit. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 76 Say..why Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way With such Prophetique greeting? View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Spencer Disc. conc. Vulgar Prophecies sig. A3 It came to pass that every..crazy Fancy and Dream [was] dub'd a Prophetick Vision. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 21 He quickly found how Prophetick the last King's Predictions had proved. a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 158 Sleep Prophetic of my Woes. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xii. 189 We..beheld our poor Phoebe..assume strange, shy ways, prophetic of old-maidenhood and a cheerless future. 1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 24 I feel that woman's words are prophetic. 1925 J. M. Murry Keats & Shakespeare ii. 14 That sonnet was prophetic: it was far in advance of the rest of his work at the moment. 1940 N. Coward Australia Visited ii. 9 Many of those in high places..dismissed his [sc. Winston Churchill's] eloquent prophetic words as alarmist warmongering. 1993 Atlantic Oct. 124/3 The comparisons were prophetic of the McCarthyism to come. 3. Spoken of or referred to in prophecy; predicted. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective] > spoken of in prophecy prophetic1651 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxxi. 187 There may be attributed to God, a two-fold Kingdome, Naturall, and Prophetique. 1682 J. Shirley Eccl. Hist. Epitomiz'd 37 And now the Prophetick time being expired, at the end of which the Messiah was to come, he was looked for by most of the Jewish Rabbins. 1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. 58 Christ himself was..far from giving them any Hope or Expectation of their prophetic Kingdom. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 1 Jan. 64/1 Sober plodding Money-lenders..little in the habit of lending their Funds on prophetic Mortgages. 1857 J. A. Heraud Judgem. of Flood (rev. ed.) xii. ii. 353 Nor was forgotten that prophetic time, When Eden's peace shall reign once more on earth. 1900 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 24 Dec. 7/4 Thus is indicated the beginnings of the Prophetic kingdom which shall never end! 1960 J. Parkes Found. Judaism & Christianity iii. 150 The actual Jesus came to dominate over the imaginary Jesus of apocalyptic and the prophetic day of the Lord. 2005 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 2 Nov. d1 It's the End of Days, the prophetic time of reckoning. 4. Grammar. Of a tense other than a future tense: used to express a certain future. ΚΠ 1787 G. Gregory tr. J. D. Michaelis in tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. xv. 337 But however they may chuse to distinguish it, whether as a prophetic present or a prophetic preterite, it is by no means unusual in the more modern languages. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity II. xxii. 67 (note) The perfects [in James 5:2, 3] are prophetic perfects; they express absolute certainty as to the ultimate result. 1884 G. H. Webster Gram. New Eng. 116 Both the Historic and the Prophetic Present use a past and a future, as though they expressed the present of absolute time. 1938 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 59 39 There are prophetic present imperatives as well as indicatives. 1960 T. Menzel tr. T. Andrae Mohammed iii. 53 His listeners misunderstood his use of the prophetic present tense. 2000 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 318. 80/2 Nor can it easily account for forms like the qatal prophetic perfect. Compounds prophetic-eyed adj. having a prophetic eye or outlook. ΚΠ 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 6 The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed, Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves. 1919 W. H. Robinson Story Arizona Pref. 9 The prophetic-eyed reclaimers of the desert. 1992 tr. S. Parnok in Slavic Rev. 51 221 To a simple homestead, to that land where my fragile voice was once heard, I shall come for a prophetic-eyed look. prophetic lesson n. now historical [after post-classical Latin lectio prophetica a reading of the Old Testament prophets (4th cent.), the Old Testament lesson at Mass (9th cent. or earlier)] a reading from one of the books of the Old Testament, esp. when given as the first lesson at the Eucharist or Mass; cf. prophet n. 4, prophecy n. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > Old Testament lesson > [noun] prophecyc1450 prophetic lesson1787 prophet1832 1787 C. Davy Lett. to Young Gentleman II. x. 177 The same observation may be made upon some of the prophetic lessons; if the parts of these were read by different canons from opposite sides of the church, it would contribute to render them..more striking to the intelligent hearer. 1872 W. E. Scudamore Notitia Eucharistica 206 [tr. St Germanus] The Prophetic Lesson [L. lectio prophetica] keeps its due place, rebuking evil things and announcing future. 1910 Catholic Encycl. IX. 194/1 The church of St. Clement at Rome..has a third ambo for the prophetic lesson. 1994 R. Hutton Rise & Fall Merry Eng. (1996) i. 20 The two processions met, and one or more people read or sang the prophetic lesson. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1484
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