Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of prophesying.
- n. A prediction; a prophecy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of prophesying; prediction; prophecy.
Wiktionary
- n. Prediction, prophecy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prediction; prophecy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
Etymologies
- vaticinate + -ion (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.”
“Plotinus observes, in his third Ennead, that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order, and that so far forth as analogy obtains in the universe, there may be vaticination.”
“And in reality he that foretells the motions of the planets, or the effects of medicines, or the result of chemical or mechanical experiments, may be said to do it by natural vaticination.”
“This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind.”
“The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.”
“Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye, and a promissory look attending it, that he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety. —”
“Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed (Greek).”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“For the common voice of the philosophers, together with the opinion of the people, asserteth for an irrefragable truth that vaticination is seldom by the heavens bestowed on any without the concomitancy of a little frenzy and a head-shaking, not only when the said presaging virtue is infused, but when the person also therewith inspired declareth and manifesteth it unto others.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“And by the devil's imitation of God's dealing with his church, this became a way of vaticination among the heathen also: Hom. i.”
“As a pro-slavery prophecy, equally dismal and equally confident with the hundreds that preceded it, this new vaticination may safely be left to be practically dealt with by the Race, victimized and maligned, whose real genius and character are purposely belied by those who expect to be gainers by the process.”
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Keepers
Collected words.
emulous, viand, gymnosophist, sublunary, flibbertigibbet, jeremiad, bastinado, ambuscade, syllogism, peccadillo, hecatomb, mendicant and 97 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, V
vespertine, vacuous, versipellous, valve, vatic, virogene, vigneron, vincular, verticil, vespiary, vermiculite, velamen and 128 more...
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Pneumatologia
Terms and phrases from John Owen's (1616-1683) theological writings, to some of which the collective title Pneumatologia has been posthumously applied. Some few of the terms listed herein are Septu...
superstruction, despond, Socinians, unbeholden, unwarrantable, ulcerous, posthume, Photinians, Pelagians, virulently, unavoidably, putid and 221 more...
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Words I had to look up, or I liked, from Robert Louis Stevenson's travelogue 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'.
pediment, drugget, raiment, scurrilous, stripling, distaff, calumniate, valise, stolid, appurtenance, spencer, vaticination and 42 more...
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words I learnt from freerice.com
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lacustrine, recondite, tergiversate, verticil, azoth, videlicet, sinciput, valetudinarian, verecund, curvet, vaticination, slumgullion and 4 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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Tristram Shandy
Words to remember from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"
lambent, vaticination, scholiast, mercurial, sublimated, heteroclite, declension, vellum, chaffer, higgle, appurtenance, sciatica and 7 more...
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Tristram the Gentleman
appurtenances, whimwham, chaffering, vaticination, lambent, pasquinade, glebe
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zacs_beard "Monastrians, of all shades of thought in politics, had agreed in threatening me with many ludicrous misadventures, and with sudden death in many surprising forms. Cold, wolves, robbers, above all the nocturnal practical joker, were daily and eloquently forced on my attention. Yet in these vaticinations, the true, patent danger was left out."
-R.L. Stevenson, 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes' May 3, 2013
booklust "Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye, and a promissory look attending it, that he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety."
-Laurence Sterne, 'Tristram Shandy' Sep 23, 2009
bilby "Archer had been wont to smile at these annual vaticinations of his mother’s; but this year even he was obliged to acknowledge, as he listened to an enumeration of the changes, that the “trend�? was visible."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'. Sep 19, 2009