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[ adjective ] foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
Synonyms Examples "prophetic writings" "prophetic powers" "words that proved prophetic" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)However , readers who accept Freud 's findings and believe that he has solved completely the mystery of dreams , should ponder over the following words in his Interpretation_Of_Dreams , Chapter 1 , : `` as_a_matter_of_fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in_any_case , and what_is_more , every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain , nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams '' . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby , at the moment of his collapse , all these elements come together in prophetic parody . Related terms unprophetic predictive apocalyptic divinatory fateful precursory Delphic clairvoyant adumbrative |
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