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The quality of being proper.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. Sir W. Hamilton.…

See Profane. [Obs.]

Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.

ng to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling. He hearkens after prophecies and dreams. Shak. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man. 2. Pet. i. 21.

A prophet. Shak.

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.

One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

A female prophet.

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.

Propheticalness.

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.

To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy. [R.] "Prophetizing dreams." Daniel.

Enunciative. [R.]

An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.

The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.