E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
An astrologer who published an annual Almanack, very similar in character to that of Francis Moore, and a Recueil of Prophecies, in four-line stanzas, extending over seven centuries. (15031566.)
The Nostradamus of Portugal. Gonçalo Annës Bandarra, a poet-cobbler, whose lucubrations were stopped by the Inquisition. (Died 1556.)
As good a prophet as Nostradamusi.e. so obscure that none can make out your meaning. Nostradamus was a provincial astrologer of the sixteenth century, who has left a number of prophecies in verse, but what they mean no one has yet been able to discover. (French proverb.)