Prophesy vs Preominate - What's the difference?
prophesy | preominate |
To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
To predict, to foretell.
* Bible, 1 Kings xxii. 8
* Shakespeare
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 745:
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
* Shakespeare
(Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
(obsolete, rare) To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
(obsolete, rare) To be a portent or omen of.
*1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.23:
*:Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.
As verbs the difference between prophesy and preominate
is that prophesy is to speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet while preominate is (obsolete|rare) to feel foreboding about; to prophesy.prophesy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
- Then I perceive that will be verified / Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy .
- ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy / A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.