pseudoprophet
(ps-, sjuːdəʊˈprɒfɪt)
[ad. late. L. pseudoprophēta (Itala a 200), Gr. ψευδοπροϕήτης (Matt. xxiv. 11): see pseudo- and prophet. So F. pseudo-prophète (13th c. in Littré).]
A false prophet; one who falsely pretends to be a prophet, or who prophesies falsely.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 394 And þes newe ordris..ben clepid of Crist pseudo-profetis. c 1420 ? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 708 Pseudo prophetes, false sodomytes. 1587 Holinshed Chron. III. 180/1 An heremit, whose name was Peter, dwelling about Yorke..This pseudoprophet or false foreteller of afterclaps. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 199 At Medina is the Pseudo-prophets Sepulchre. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 203 As soon as a preacher, or pseudo prophet..gets followers enough, he..sets up for an independent chief and ‘medicine man’. |
So
pseudoˈprophetess, a false prophetess;
pseudoproˈphetic,
-ical adjs.| 1680 H. More Apocal. Apoc. ii. 21 ‘Which calleth herself a Prophetess’, but is indeed a *Pseudoprophetess..and seducer of my servants. |
| 1668 ― Div. Dial. v. iv. (1713) 406 That Chair of Infallibility that he and his *Pseudoprophetick Body boast they sit in. |
| 1588 J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 45 The fantasticall books of Brigit full fraught with such *pseudopropheticall wonderments. 1664 H. More Exp. 7 Epist. (1669) 130 The Bestian and Pseudoprophetical power..is burnt and destroyed. |