Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from a prophet or seer; prophetic; oracular; inspired.
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- adjective Pertaining to a
prophet ;prophetic ,oracular .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Jeet Heer 2010
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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.
A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Sent down through his vatic brotherhood the Christ that was to be.
City and Village 2010
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Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off.
After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone 2010
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Non-vatic though I am, that looks like a good omen to me.
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The contemporary poet has largely eschewed any claim to the “vatic,” a mantle many poets a generation or three ago aspired to.
2007 November : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2 2007
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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.
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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 2007
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To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.
Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008
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To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies.
enowning enowning 2008
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