0 to say that you believe something will happen in the future: --
[ + question word ] I wouldn't like to prophesy what will happen to that marriage!
[ + that ] He prophesied that the present government would only stay four years in office.
Few could have prophesied this war.
1 to say what will happen in the future: --
He prophesied a Democratic defeat in the next election.
Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen.
Even after the presumed revolution, art is still the 'herald' of the future, prophesying what has produced it.
Quite the opposite is the case with the treble choristers, who simply repeat text or music, such as the fool prophesy or the communion text and motifs.
In this context, ' prophesy ' does not mean to foretell the future but to preach and instruct from a personal rather than an institutional point of view.
The 1960s, in short, have seen a surge of exploration and technological wizardry which few could have foreseen or dared to prophesy even as late as 1959.
The volume also devotes attention to the application of the doctrine of middle knowledge to other debates in philosophical theology, such as free will, soteriology and prophesy.
Without being at all adventurous in prophesy, we can be certain that the practice of pediatric cardiology will undergo major changes in the next decade.
He prophesied that in the future the victims might be rehabilitated (p. 96).
