All 4 Uses of
prophesy
in
Moby Dick
- I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.†
Chpt 37-39
- I twigged it, knew it; had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it—for when I clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play—this is a thing which carries more of true terror than…†
Chpt 58-60
- Their Historians affirm, that a Prophet who prophesy'd of Mahomet, came from this Temple, and some do not stand to assert, that the Prophet Jonas was cast forth by the Whale at the Base of the Temple."†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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(prophesy) predict or reveal -- especially through, or as if through, divine inspiration