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vaticination|vətɪsɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. vāticinātiōn-, vāticinātio, n. of action f. vāticinārī: see prec. Cf. obs. F. vaticination (Cotgr.).]
1. A prediction of an oracular or inspired nature; a prognostication or prophecy, a prophetic utterance or forecast.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1198 Sibylla, and Aristonice, or such as published their vaticinations and prophesies in verse. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 63 The Law has appointed a sort of Prophets as Judges over these divine Vaticinations. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xii, Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but..that he [etc.]. 1815Scott Guy M. xlvii, The Dominie.. had just that moment parted from Meg Merrilies, and was too deeply wrapt up in pondering upon her vaticinations, to make any answer. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. iii. (1865) I. 115 The frightful vaticinations of fire and slaughter with which Cicero had kept the ears of the people tingling. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iv. §6. 266 The ‘Sibylline Oracles’..contain many vaticinations, inextricably mingled, from Jewish, heathen, and Christian sources.
transf.1836Emerson Nature Wks. (Bohn) II. 170 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect.
2. The action or fact of vaticinating; the utterance of predictions or prophecies; also, the power or gift of this.
1623Cockeram i, Vaticination, a prophesying. 1699Bentley Phal. iv. 147 Unless we dare ascribe to the Tyrant a Spirit of Vaticination, we cannot acquit the Author of the Letters of so manifest a cheat. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxiii, He despised most of the ordinary prejudices about witchcraft, omens, and vaticination. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §3. 206 The ambiguous vaticination of the heathen oracles.
transf.1744Berkeley Siris §252 He that foretels the motions of planets,..may be said to do it by natural vaticination.
†b. Divine or inspired apprehension or knowledge; intuition, insight. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref., Whether this Assurance be called a Vaticination or Divine Sagacity, (as it is by Plato and Aristotle) or Faith, as in the Scripture. Ibid. 409 That Vaticination, which all men have in their minds concerning the Gods. |