n. Inspired discourse; specifically, in Christian theol., discourse flowing from the revelation and impulse of the Holy Spirit.n. A prediction; declaration of something to come; especially, a foretelling under divine inspiration.n. Interpretation of Scripture; religious exhortation or instruction.n. In liturgics: A lection from the Old Testament, especially a eucharistic or missal lection; also, a lection in the Mozarabic daily office, and in the Greek Church at sabbath vespers on certain festivals.n. The canticle Benedictus (Luke i. 68-79) as sung in the Gallican liturgy, afterward displaced by the Gloria in Excelsis.