word of the day :: soothsayer

soothsayer:

[sooth-sey-er]

–noun

a person who professes to foretell events.

  

Origin:

1300–50;  ME sothseyere, sothseyer. 

"Someone has said that the first soothsayer, the first prophet, was the first rascal who encountered a fool."

:: Voltaire ::

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