词汇 | seer |
释义 | seer noun[ C ] literaryuk /sɪər/ us /sɪr/ a person who says he or she can see what will happen in the future预言家;先知 People who perform magic or have paranormal abilities alchemist clairvoyant conjurer coven crone escapologist ghostbuster illusionist mage magician oracle psychic shaman soothsayer sorcerer sorceress spiritual healer visionary wizard wizardly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: People who make predictions Examples of seerseer But of the books which set forth the matter correctly there remained a few by the ancient seers who went before us. Because we take the seer to be a fraud, we interpret her spiritual fit as merely histrionic. The texts are revelations to seers, but from out of the very structure of reality, not from a specific author. Unlike the visionary and the seer, the artist in pursuit of a new goal finds no subliminal apparatus ready to serve him. Whether the special office of inspired oracle and seer had continued into modern times was altogether more controversial. It is worth noting that some seers did actually enjoy clerical approbation. He ' ' exalted his role as novelist/seer. A last example, taken from the realm of physics, will show how scientists made sense of this ambiguous output their seers in the dark had presented them. Rule r5 says that if both index and cite seer are down, then an error is flagged. You do not have to be a seer or a social scientist to realise that segregation reinforces stereotypes and that integration promotes mutual understanding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no doubt that the culling that we have seer and heard about is very distasteful to the public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why should we not attempt to establish the better world now, that age of plenty sung of by the bards and prophesied by the seers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has to be part seer and part statistician. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are living in the age about which the poet and the seer dreamt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This would require the actuary to be a seer or a soothsayer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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