Word Meanings - SOOTHSAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mantis. (more info) 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

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• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• MANTISPID
  Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.
• MANTIS
  Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer.
• SOOTHSAY
  To foretell; to predict. "You can not soothsay." Shak. "Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell." Milton.
• MANTISSA
  The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
• SOOTHSAYER
  A mantis. (more info) 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
• SOOTHSAYING
  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.
• CHIROMANIST; CHIROMANTIST
  A chiromancer.
• SEA MANTIS
  A squilla.