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PROPHESY

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Irregular inflected form: prophesied   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliver a sermon

Example:

The minister is not preaching this Sunday

Synonyms:

preach; prophesy

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "prophesy" is one way to...):

lecture; talk (deliver a lecture or talk)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prophesy"):

evangelise; evangelize (preach the gospel (to))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Something ----s to somebody
Somebody ----s on something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue prophesy

Sense 2

Meaning:

Predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration

Synonyms:

prophesy; vaticinate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "prophesy" is one way to...):

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prophesy"):

vaticinate (foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy)

enlighten; irradiate (give spiritual insight to; in religion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

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