The machinery was not in motion, and but a few of the shop doors unbarred, when he alighted in the stable yard of the tavern, and made it his first business to order the mare four quarts of oats.
prophecy. 1  prediction of the future under divine or paranormal guidance; act, practice, or ability of a prophet. 2  any prediction. 3  something prophesied or predicted; specif., the divinely inspired utterance or utterances of a prophet. 4  a book of prophecies.
Synonym Discussion of forecast. foretell, predict, forecast, prophesy, prognosticate mean to tell beforehand. foretell applies to the telling of the coming of a future event by any procedure or any source of information seers foretold the calamity. predict commonly implies inference from facts or accepted laws of nature astronomers predicted an eclipse.