- a variation of prophetic.
prophetical
Example Sentences
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His ephemeral work — anti-normality, anti-materialist, anti-classist — had assumed an exhortative, prophetical tone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
To be a patriarch, one need not retire into prophetical obscurity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This epistle shows that St Paul was touched with the poetic as well as the prophetical afflatus.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Enoch, Book of, an apocryphal book of an assumedly prophetical character, to which considerable importance has been attached, particularly on account of St. Jude quoting it in the 14th and 15th verses of his Epistle.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
But it will be affirmed that Jacob's assertion was prophetical, that he foresaw the time when Judah would have the kingly power among his brethren, which did not occur till the time of David.
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lionel Lisle