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c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 4992 For thus gret benefices thanked thow Godde plesauntly, ‘Magnificat’, a newe songe, makyng propheticaly [L. Pro tantis beneficiis Domino Deo gratias magnificas egisti Et cum magno gaudio canticum Magnificat sibi dedisti].

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. viii. sig. Mm.v/2 S. Peter and Saint Paul doe..applie this..as a thing spoken Prophetically vnto Christ Iesus.

1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 26 Which our enemies too profetically fear'd.

1682 R. Baxter Answer Mr. Dodwell & Dr. Sherlocke v. 67 Christ and his Apostles..did by the Holy Ghost Prophetically deliver to the world that body of Doctrine and Law, which must rule them to the end.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub vii. 142 The happy Genius of our Age and Country, was prophetically held forth by that antient typical Description of the Indian Pygmies.

1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) iii. 61 This is prophetically expressed in Isa. lxiii. 1.

1816 J. Austen Emma III. xi. 186 Mr. Knightley had spoken prophetically, when he once said, ‘Emma, you have been no friend to Harriet Smith.’ View more context for this quotation

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. v. 356 Kirwan was one of those men of whom the preacher spoke prophetically.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. v. 154 ‘It may yet be the means of saving some of your convictions,’ he said prophetically.

1942 Fortune Nov. 97/1 He speaks prophetically of subsistence living and life with father in the Army unless father gets into an ‘essential’ industry.

2000 Isis 91 493 His use of a guardian ethos prophetically presented the United States as a steward for other nations.