Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of prophesying; prediction; prophecy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prediction; prophecy.
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- noun Prediction,
prophecy .
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- noun knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Nature 2006
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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.
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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.
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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.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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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.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind.
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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. —
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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. —
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The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.
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Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed (Greek).
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
bilby commented on the word vaticination
"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'.
September 19, 2009
booklust commented on the word vaticination
"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'
September 23, 2009
zacs_beard commented on the word vaticination
"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