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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Soothsay \Sooth"say'\, verb (used without an object) [Sooth + say; properly to say truth, tell the truth.] To foretell; to predict. ''You can not soothsay.'' --Shak. ''Old soothsaying Glaucus' spell.'' --Milton. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: 1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. [Obs.] --Spenser. God turn the same to good soothsay. --Spenser. From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 32 Moby Thesaurus words for "soothsay": adumbrate, augur, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foretell, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate
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