Dictionary entry

Soothsaying

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sooth″say′ing, n. 1. A true saying; truth.

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.