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.
SCHOOLWIDEEXPECTATIONS refer to the beliefs held by the staff as a whole about the learning abilityof the student body.As originally described by Merton (1948), a SELFFULFILLING PROPHECY occurs whena false definition of a situation evokes a new behavior which makes the originally falseconception come true.