Soothsayer Sentence Examples

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  • A soothsayer was a general practitioner in his art, not attached to any one god or temple.

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  • He was looked upon as a great soothsayer and wizard, who could turn death into life.

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  • The Torah advises against becoming "a sorcerer, soothsayer or engager of witchcraft".

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  • And it is also probable that certain persons combined in their own individuality the functions of magician and sacrificer as well as soothsayer.

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  • The latter indeed tolerated the gosesn (soothsayer) as they did the seer (ro`eh).

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  • That this was what actually happened may be inferred from the fact that the Canaanite and Phoenician name for a priest (kohen) is identical with the Arabic kahin, a " soothsayer."

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  • They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning (or shot by Apollo) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.

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  • Might there be a psychic; some fortune-telling soothsayer clairvoyant oracle bitch sticking her witch-nose into my business?

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  • They even take the unusual step of traveling upriver to consult sexy soothsayer Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris ).

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  • They even take the unusual step of traveling upriver to consult sexy soothsayer Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris).

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  • The attitude of Paul toward glossolaly among his converts strikingly resembles Plato's opinion as expressed in the Timaeus, p. 72, of the enthusiastic ecstasies of the ancient µav ns (soothsayer).

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  • It is said that, while planting a vineyard, he was told by a soothsayer that he would never drink of its wine.

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  • The soothsayer differs from the priest of an oracle by giving his revelation under excitement and often in a frenzy allied to madness.

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  • We see from I Kings xviii., 2 Kings x., that great Baal temples had two classes of ministers, kohanim and nebhiim, " priests " and " prophets," and as the former bear a name which primarily denotes a soothsayer, so the latter are also a kind of priests who do sacrificial service with a wild ritual of their own.

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  • Sorcerer was the sire of Soothsayer (1808), Comus (1809), and Smolensko (181o).

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  • It has been doubted whether Pericles favoured this enterprise, but among its chief promoters were two of his friends, Lampon the soothsayer and Hippodamus the architect.

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  • Agamemnon had offended Artemis, who prevented the Greek fleet from sailing for Troy, and, according to the soothsayer Calchas, could be appeased only by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter.

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  • The kahin, therefore, is not a degraded priest but such a soothsayer as is found in most primitive societies, and the Canaanite priests grew out of these early revealers.

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  • He is said to have been originally called Scamandrius, and to have received the name of Helenus from a Thracian soothsayer who instructed him in the prophetic art.

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  • In canvassing for the consulship he was guided by the counsels of an Etruscan soothsayer, and was accompanied in his campaigns by a Syrian prophetess.

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  • This is certainly true of the sangatu or priesthood, which was connected with a special family attached to a particular temple and its worship. (2) Johns also points out the existence of the rab-baru, chief soothsayer, and the rab-masmasu or chief magician.

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