vaticination

American  

[vuh-tis-uh-ney-shuhn, vat-uh-suh-] / vəˌtɪs əˈneɪ ʃən, ˌvæt ə sə- /

noun

1. an act of prophesying.

2. a prophesy.

---

Etymology

Origin of vaticination

First recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō ). See vaticinate, -ion

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

vaticination

There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

He lingered for a while near that edge of the platform where the two aged ladies were seated, as though some faint vaticination of the advent of half-a-crown still haunted his bewildered faculties.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony