vaticinate

• But whatever the ultimate fate of these obscure terms, word lovers would doubtless vaticinate that the overall exercise will be roborant for people's vocabularies. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• "You enquire after Dante's Prophecy: I have not done more than six hundred lines, but will vaticinate at leisure. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold —  A Gentleman's C
• Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
• No less futile were it to waste declamatory tears upon the strife of absolutism with new-fledged democracy, or to vaticinate a reign of socialistic terror for the immediate future. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction

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