sooth·say·er /-ˌseɚ/
 預言者,占卜者,算命者


 Sooth·say·er n.
 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
 2. Zool. A mantis.

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 soothsayer
      n : someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the
          basis of special knowledge) [syn: forecaster, predictor,
           prognosticator]


 Soothsayer
    one who pretends to prognosticate future events. Baalam is so
    called (Josh. 13:22; Heb. kosem, a "diviner," as rendered 1 Sam.
    6:2; rendered "prudent," Isa. 3:2). In Isa. 2:6 and Micah 5:12
    (Heb. yonenim, i.e., "diviners of the clouds") the word is used
    of the Chaldean diviners who studied the clouds. In Dan. 2:27;
    5:7 the word is the rendering of the Chaldee gazrin, i.e.,
    "deciders" or "determiners", here applied to Chaldean
    astrologers, "who, by casting nativities from the place of the
    stars at one's birth, and by various arts of computing and
    divining, foretold the fortunes and destinies of individuals.",
    Gesenius, Lex. Heb. (See SORCERER.)