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Definition of Prophesiers
1. prophesier [n] - See also: prophesier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophesiers
Literary usage of Prophesiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"There was a privy search made through all Sussex for II- all vagabonds, gipsies,
conspirators, prophesiers, all players, and such-like. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... than there came running to him all the conjurors, fortune-tellers, astrologers,
prophesiers, projectors, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"In addition to this, we have the 'South-Sea Bubble,'so well depicted by CHARLES
LAMB, with chapters on 'The Alchemists,' 'prophesiers,' 'Fortune-Tellers,' ..."
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