vaticinal
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of vaticinal
1580–90; < Latin vāticin ( us ) prophetic ( vāticin ( ārī ) to prophesy + -us adj. suffix) + -al 1; see vaticinate
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Mrs. Bush is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Any one in the wide world except the Marshams would have quickly recognized the inconvenience of having a vaticinal cook.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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