† vaticinantadj.
Obsolete. rare.
1. As present participle: prophesying, predicting.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective]
witiec897
weirdc1400
propheticalc1450
propheticc1484
vaticinant1490
fatal?1504
spaeing?a1505
vaticinal1587
mantical1588
vatical1594
vatic1603
fatidical1608
vaticinating1634
fatiloquent1656
vaticinian1656
fatidic1671
fateful1720
vaticinatric1729
seer-like1816
mantic1839
fatidicating1867
vaticinatory1883
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 29 There fonde they the preste of Iubyter, wyth his wyf and alle his meyne, vaticynaunte or prophecyeng thynges moche merueyllous.
2. (See quot. 1647.)
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > possessing intuition
vaticinant1647
intuitive1652
self-knowing1828
intuent1865
intuitional1877
sixth-sensed1976
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 165/1 The soul is said to be in a vaticinant, or parturient condition, when she hath some kind of sense, and hovering knowledge of a thing, but yet cannot distinctly and fully..represent it to herself.
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