prophecy

Etymology

From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin prophētīa, from Ancient Greek προφητεία (prophēteía, “prophecy”), from προφήτης (prophḗtēs, “speaker of a god”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + φημί (phēmí, “I tell”). Displaced native Old English wītgung.

noun

1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

verb

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
   The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen. 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19
   One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […] 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142
   The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity. 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135
   the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91); 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85