[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prophesy \proph"esy\, v. i.
   1913 webster
   1. to utter predictions; to make declaration of events to
      come. --matt. xv. 7.
      1913 webster

   2. to give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or
      explain scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to
      exhort; to expound. --ezek. xxxvii. 7.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

prophesy \proph"esy\, v. t. imp.  p. p. prophesied; p. pr.
    vb. n. prophesying. see prophecy.
   1. to foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.
      1913 webster

            he doth not prophesy good concerning me. --1 kings
      xxii. 8.
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            then i perceive that will be verified
            henry the fifth did sometime prophesy. --shak.
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   2. to foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
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            methought thy very gait did prophesy
            a royal nobleness; i must embrace thee. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
prophesied prophesying prophecy 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

prophesy
     v 1: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine
          inspiration syn: vaticinate
     2: deliver a sermon; "the minister is not preaching this
        sunday" syn: preach
     also: prophesied
see also:
vaticinate preach prophesied 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

60 moby thesaurus words for "prophesy":
   adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, await, be destined,
   be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
   cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, divine, dope,
   dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode,
   forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, fortune-tell,
   guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, hope, lie ahead, look for,
   look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis,
   make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure,
   presage, prognosticate, project, promise, read palms,
   read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate,
   tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate

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