vaticination
[vuh-tis-uh-ney-shuh n, vat-uh-suh-]
- an act of prophesying.
- a prophesy.
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Origin of vaticination
First recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō). See vaticinate, -ion
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Related Words for vaticination
prognosis, revelation, augury, forecast, divination, cast, prognostication, vision, oracle, apocalypse, presage, soothsaying, previsionExamples from the Web for vaticination
Historical Examples of vaticination
The "Doctor" was by brevet or vaticination, to make the grade easier to my pocket.
If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination?
For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.Francois Rabelais
Its speculation can no longer be stigmatized as vaticination in vacuo, nor its results as illusory.
He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination.
Charles DarwinGrant Allen