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.
Definition of apocalypse. 1  1a : one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdomb capitalized : revelation 3.