0 present participle of prophesy
1 to say that you believe something will happen in the future:
Few could have prophesied this war.
[ + that ] He prophesied that the present government would only stay four years in office.
[ + question word ] I wouldn't like to prophesy what will happen to that marriage!
Even after the presumed revolution, art is still the 'herald' of the future, prophesying what has produced it.
I do not think it is much use prophesying.
This girl about adolescent age started to have visions, and started prophesying.
However, a declaration is usually followed by my prophesying doom for the arts.
I am not advocating or prophesying a revival of colonialism.
I am not prophesying; am not so foolish as to prophesy.
I think, therefore, that demonstrates the impossibility of prophesying about the future in those kinds of ways.
This is not a time for smooth prophesying.
