prophetic
IPA: prʌfˈɛtɪk
adjective
- Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
- Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
- Predicted, as by a prophecy.
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Examples of "prophetic" in Sentences
- This is of the prophetic legacy.
- The last statement was prophetic.
- In the case of Clarence Thomas, it is prophetic.
- Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.
- He speaks about God from what we call the prophetic posture.
- His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers.
- And I open it as a pastor and a professor who comes from a long tradition of what I call the prophetic theology of the black church.
- [8] In 2003, Tamaki, in what he described as a prophetic utterance, predicted that Destiny would be "ruling the nation" within five years.
- But what we shall be saying about it depends largely, I suppose, upon our definition of the term prophetic; also a little upon our feeling with regard to good taste and the permissible in fiction.
- But Mrs. Whishtablount knew a thing or two about religious people, especially the dangerous crowds that milled around in prophetic theme parks, and she alone realized the danger in which Santa now found himself.
- Mr. Davis, as if in prophetic vision, seemed to take in at a glance our growing and glorious Republic with its vine-clad hills, its mill-strewn vales, its sunlit homes, its wire-woven, iron-bound lands, and sail-wreathed oceans.
- Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.