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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Soothsayer \Sooth"say`er\, n.
1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a
prognosticator.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A mantis.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
soothsayer
n : someone who makes predictions of the future [syn: {forecaster},
{predictor}, {prognosticator}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Soothsayer
one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so
called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem a "diviner," as rendered 1 Sam.
6:2; rendered "prudent," Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12
(Heb. yonenim i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used
of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27;
5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin i.e.,
deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean
astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the
stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and
divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.",
Gesenius Lex. Heb. (See {SORCERER}.)
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