rare. Also 7 southsay. [Back-formation from SOOTHSAYER or SOOTHSAYING vbl. sb. Cf. OE. sóðsecgan to say or speak truly.] intr. To make predictions, to foretell future events; to predict, prophesy. Also with it.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. ii. 52. Go you wilde Bedfellow, you cannot Soothsay.
1611. Cotgr., Diviner, to diuine, presage, soothsay it.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 226. Wherefore suffumigations are wont to be used to them that are about to southsay, for to affect their fancy.
1736. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., II. Vero,… to soothsay, as wisards, and wise women do.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 160. Even he soothsaying sings that the Argive camp Holds midnight council to attack the city.
1877. Daily News, 19 Oct., 6/3. The next fortnight may therefore be pregnant with news, good or evil to the Turkish cause—who will soothsay?
