ADJECTIVE
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foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
prophetic writings
words that proved prophetic
prophetic powers
How To Use prophetical In A Sentence
- he prophetically anticipated the disaster
- In the beginning of the article, he prophetically states, "The results are somewhat conflicting."
- In short, the traditionally separated out categories of science and religious enthusiasm were in the eighteenth century as mutually invasive as Newton's own scientific and prophetical modes of enquiry.
- She ran over to the stereo and quickly hit the Next button, ending the strangely prophetical tune.
- His underlying point remains valid today, although, of course, we now hesitate to make historical statements about the narrative characters in the Elijah and Elisha prophetical stories.
- Those prophetical, apostolical admonitions are well known to all; what Solomon, Anatomy of Melancholy
- Sometimes efforts are made to convince members that they really are not gifted teachers or musically talented or prophetically inclined as they believed they were.
- We were to realize years later how prophetically he spoke on that occasion.
- Did religion stand prophetically on the side of the poor demanding social justice (as some Christians believe Jesus did), or did religion forestall social reform, providing deadening consolation for economic injustice (as Karl Marx argued in speaking of religion as the “opiate of the masses”)? American Grace
- Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper