SOOTHSAYING

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A true saying; truth. [Obs.]

2.
n.

The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

3.
n.

A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5.


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