0 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!
1 to say what will happen in the future:
He prophesied a Democratic defeat in the next election.
The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
Some had prophesied, a few had preached, and others had even publicly demonstrated in defence of their forms of worship.
He prophesied to them in secret all the happenings that would take place on their journey.
We can only safely prophesy the effect of advances that are already in the pipeline.
Indeed, he had prophesied the exact opposite: a decline of productivist dogma in favor of progressive experimentation.
True prophesy, the poem instructs, resembles the poetess's reflections more than the radical's ambitious scientific reforms.
Ears are only made "averse" by the "noise" of ecclesiastical "scrannel pipes"; they will be reconciled to "a verse" containing the music of true prophesy.
He prophesied that in the future the victims might be rehabilitated (p. 96).
