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Synonyms for prophetic

of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means

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Synonyms for prophetic

foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

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On the morning appointed for her departure Tess was awake before dawn--at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.
It is only to-night that the girl's words ring in her ear, with a strange prophetic sound in them.
Our fears must have been prophetic, for on that same evening the wildwood discharged upon us Milly's preordained confiscator--our fee to adjustment and order.
Listen and I'll convince thee that no man Hath scot or lot in the prophetic art.
(Str.) If my soul prophetic err not, if my wisdom aught avail, Thee, Cithaeron, I shall hail, As the nurse and foster-mother of our Oedipus shall greet Ere tomorrow's full moon rises, and exalt thee as is meet.
"Isn't your society capable of anything else but printing this prophetic bosh in blunt type on this filthy paper eh?
His prophetic and doleful despatches had been for years the joke of Foreign Offices.
But the little stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had happened -- or making a prophetic lamentation about something that was yet to happen -- within the verge of the dismal forest.
This edition belongs to a genre of writings in which medieval texts originally written by important scholars of religion and addressing questions of "Prophetic medicine" are edited (in the sense of modified), drawn into debate, and republished.
Reconsidering the Book of Four: The Shaping of Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah as an Early Prophetic Collection
The HAICA Board also discussed the issue of licensing religious media, and the use of the Holy Quran and prophetic narratives in commercial communication.
Spiritual Growth, Christian Life, Charismatic, a Prophetic Guidebook
Rooted in the prophetic, deliverance and healing, what began as a living room meeting has expanded to what would become Revelation Church.'
Summary: New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday said that he stands by his 'neech aadmi' jibe against Narendra Modi and termed his December 2017 remark about the Prime Minister as "prophetic".
It is a clarion call for "prophetic spirituality," what she defines as an "antidote to social sin." Her claim is that we have divorced spiritual obligation from political policy and have retreated from engagement with a suffering world to a kind of pious indifference.