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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from a prophet or seer; prophetic; oracular; inspired.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vates ‘seer, poet’. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin vātēs, seer, of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I'm very fond of the Fourth World series, and even enjoy the aspect of them that is most often mocked, Kirby's peculiar writing style, which to my ears at least has a kind of vatic poetry.”

    Comics Comics

  • “The springy elegance of his mind, which serves to clarify the problems of life, not to muddle them with vatic obscurities, has brought him triple glory—as a poet, a translator no one has captured Molière in English better than he and a lyricist.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence

  • “Sent down through his vatic brotherhood the Christ that was to be.”

    City and Village

  • “Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off.”

    The Guardian: After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone

  • “Non-vatic though I am, that looks like a good omen to me.”

    What’s the News from Basra?

  • “Now, in her vatic vision of the world as a Jew, she wants to see women healed and changed with the restoration of the goddess in her many forms.”

    Alicia Suskin Ostriker.

  • “The contemporary poet has largely eschewed any claim to the “vatic,” a mantle many poets a generation or three ago aspired to.”

    Poetry and Prophecy : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

  • “To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.”

    enowning

  • “When the Ship Comes In" is as good an example as any, I suppose; Dylan in his vatic mode, descrying the shape of the coming day:”

    When The Ship Comes In

  • “So obscure, so mystifying, so all-encompassing is Heidegger's Being that, his vatic pretensions notwithstanding, it leaves nothing to interpret but other interpretations.”

    Archive 2007-12-01

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  1. prophetical
  1. prophetic

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  1. vatical
  1. vaticinal

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