predictresses

Noun

predictress (plural predictresses)

1. A female predictor.
   • προφῆτις. Why Anna is so called the Commentators are not agreed. Some take the word in the sense of “a predictress of future events;” as in the Apoc. 2, 20.; others think she is so called, as being the wife of a prophet.1826, S[amuel] T[homas] Bloomfield, “St. Luke”, in Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacræ, Being a Critical Digest and Synoptical Arrangement of the Most Important Annotations on the New Testament...