- 1預言（動詞；名詞「預言」是 prophecy，差一個字母）
To prophesy is to say what will happen in the future, especially when people believe you have religious or magical knowledge — not when you are guessing tomorrow’s weather from an app. A prophet prophesies; in stories and in the Bible, someone prophesies war, or peace, or the birth of a child. It is a verb. The voice is formal, often religious or literary. Though actually, newspapers sometimes stretch it for any bold prediction (“the economist prophesied a crash”), and then it can sound a little too big, as if the speaker is playing at being a holy person. The everyday verbs are predict or say. This spelling with s is the verb. The usual noun — the message itself — is prophecy, with a c. They are : two English words from the same old family, now split by spelling and by job.
組成From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”). Doublet of prophecy.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prophesyverb詞源 1/ˈpɹɒfɪsaɪ/
- 1
To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
- And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
- No, but when the Spirit fils The fantastick Pannicles: Full of fier; then I write
- 2
To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).
- Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy ‘If once he come to be a cardinal, He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’
- My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
- 3
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
- Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
- 4
ChristianityTo speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
- 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73, […] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。