prophetic
adjective
of or relating to a prophet.
prophetical
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a variation of
prophetic.
Example Sentences
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His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
To be a patriarch, one need not retire into prophetical obscurity.
From Time Magazine Archive
What pathetic dignity there is in his often-repeated saying, when time after time his prophetical books were returned upon his hands—"Well, it is published elsewhere—and beautifully bound."
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
“These,” Ulenspiegel replied, “are prophetical seeds, fetched straight from Araby into Flanders, and prepared with mighty art by the master Abdul-Médil of the kin of the great Mahomet.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Without this prophetical spirit, determining the application of these threatnings to particular persons, we may not imitate this peremptoriness.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
