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proˈphetical, a. (n.)
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of, belonging or proper to, or of the nature of a prophet; of or pertaining to prophecy (= prophetic 1).
1456Coventry Leet Bk. 287 Ysay, replete with þe spirite propheticall. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 71 As the Propheticall Psalmist singeth. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 462 One of those youths, in that Propheticall distraction before mentioned, warned them to depart from thence. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xvii. §23. 321 The Apostolicall worke indeed was universall; the Propheticall to declare their owne revelations in the Church; the Evangelicall to preach, or to be publishers of the Gospell. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. vii. (1715) 69 They had Recourse to the whole Train of prophetical Divinities. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. Pref. 18 The poetical imagery of the prophetical books.
2. Of the nature of or containing prophecy, predictive (= prophetic 2).
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. iv. §5 The reprehension of Saint Paul was not only proper for those times, but prophetical for the times following. 1674Brevint Saul at Endor 269 The Man, whom the Pope in a Prophetical dream saw supporting his Lateran Church from falling. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. ix. 200 A prophetical oration announced that the future line from Charles would not be less numerous.
†B. n. A prophetical utterance, a prophecy. Obs.
1615Sylvester Memory of Margarite Wks. (Grosart) II. 294 One night, two dreams made two propheticals: Thine, of thy Coffin; mine, of thy Funerals. 1653H. Whistler Upshot Inf. Baptisme 99 By plain coherence of these Propheticalls it appeareth.
Hence prophetiˈcality (nonce-wd.), proˈpheticalness (rare), prophetical quality.
1727Bailey vol. II, Propheticalness..prophetical Nature or Quality. a1834Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 284 (on B. Jonson's Barth. Fair) An odd sort of propheticality in this Numps and old Noll! |
