Verb(1) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration(2) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy
Verb(1) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration(2) foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy
(1) The experts vaticinate that, in some years, the European electrical sector will be reduced to five or six groups.(2) The vaticinations of Thomas are cited by various later chroniclers, and had as much credit in England as in Scotland.(3) In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end.(4) The lectus born by four lecticarii and followed by the orator, pontifex, vaticinator and blood relations completed the procession.(5) Economists in our day try to utter all kinds of vaticinal projections about the future.(6) He composed poems on a number of subjects, including eulogy, request poetry, nature and love poetry, and vaticination as well as religious poetry and a poem praising the famous cross at Caerlleon.(7) Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination , or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world.(8) This theory is hard to shake, its vaticinations being so far well vindicated.(9) Nearly all of the book consists of poetry, mostly in the form of religious, vaticinatory , panegyric, and legendary poetry.(10) She is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting.(11) Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong.(12) Servius apparently followed Cicero's De divinatione in distinguishing furor-driven vaticinators from artful soothsayers and augurs.
