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語源

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin prophēticus, from Ancient Greek προφητικός (prophētikós), equivalent to prophet +‎ -ic.

発音

• IPA: /pɹəˈfɛtɪk/

形容詞

prophetic (not comparable)

1. Having the ability to prophesize; prescient.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

     [Ghost] But know thou noble Youth: he that did sting / Thy fathers heart, now weares his Crowne. / Ham. O my prophetike soule, my uncle! my uncle!

2. Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 298:

     Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.

3. Predicted, as by a prophecy.
   • 1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

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