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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prophetic \Pro*phet"ic\, Prophetical \Pro*phet"ic*al\, a. [L.
propheticus Gr ?: cf F. proph['e]tique.]
Containing, or pertaining to prophecy; foretelling events;
as prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of
before the thing foretold.
And fears are oft prophetic of the event. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prophetic
adj : foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention;
"prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that
proved prophetic" [syn: {prophetical}] [ant: {unprophetic}]
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