Category:Soothsaying

Sooth"say`ing, n.

1. A true saying; truth. [obs.]

2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art Or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination. . . which brought Her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16.

3. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication. Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5.