soothsayer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: soothsayer	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for soothsayer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
soothsayer n someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) Synonym(s): forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer
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[94]l.) A mantis.
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}.)