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soothsayer 音标拼音: [s ,uθs'eɚ] n. 预言者,占卜者,算命者 预言者,占卜者,算命者 soothsayer n 1: someone who makes predictions of the future ( usually on the basis of special knowledge) [ synonym: { forecaster}, { predictor}, { prognosticator}, { soothsayer}] Soothsayer \ Sooth" say` er\, n. 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) A mantis. [ 1913 Webster] 33 Moby Thesaurus words for " soothsayer": Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, vates, weather prophetSoothsayer one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so called ( Josh. 13: 22; Heb. kosem, a " diviner," as rendered 1 Sam. 6: 2; rendered " prudent," Isa. 3: 2). In Isa. 2: 6 and Micah 5: 12 ( Heb. yonenim, i. e., " diviners of the clouds") the word is used of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2: 27; 5: 7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i. e., " deciders" or " determiners", here applied to Chaldean astrologers, " who, by casting nativities from the place of the stars at one' s birth, and by various arts of computing and divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.", Gesenius, Lex. Heb. ( See { SORCERER}.)
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