vaticinatev.
/vaˈtɪsᵻneɪt/, /vəˈtɪsᵻneɪt/, /vaˈtɪsn̩eɪt/, /vəˈtɪsn̩eɪt/, U.S. /vəˈtɪsəˌneɪt/ 1. intransitive. To speak as a prophet or seer; to utter vaticinations or predictions; to foretell events.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (intransitive)]
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vaticinate1623
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vaticinate, to prophesie.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 220 And then goes on vaticinating,..Whiles Cambray's issue serue the Lord their Maker [etc.].
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 187 Is it not by diabolical instinct, that they here peremptorily vaticinate, or ominate of long life, short life, marriage, [etc.].
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 134 Aristotle (as it were Vaticinating concerning it) somewhere calls [the Spirit of God]..a certain Better and Diviner thing than Reason.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §253 All have not alike learned the connexion of natural things, or understand what they signify, or know how to vaticinate by them.
1829 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 483 What if Humphrey has vaticinated? What if he has beaten all prognosticators since Nostradamus?
1835 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 209 The plan followed by the late Mr. Coleridge in vaticinating upon the events of the last war.
1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. vi. 239 From a hundred platforms..gentlemen declaimed, vaticinated, and returned thanks to one another.
2. transitive. To foretell, predict, prognosticate, or prophesy (a future event).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (transitive)]
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vaticinate1652
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 259 Chalcas did vaticinate or prognosticate the destruction of Troy.
1657 A. Cokayne Obstinate Lady ii. i. 17 He was an intricate Prognosticator of firmamental Eclipses, and vaticinated future occurents by the mysterious influences of the sublime Starres.
1820 Ld. Byron Let. 24 Apr. (1977) VII. 85 I vaticinate a row in Italy.
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xviii. 275 I vaticinate what will be the upshot of all his schemes of reform.
1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy VII. xiv. 412 To vaticinate a reign of socialistic terror for the immediate future.
Derivatives
vaˈticinating n. and adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [adjective]
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1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 207 These Vaticinating Boyes, who with their long-spread haire fall flat afore the Idoll.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 356 Virgil..from some vaticinating Notion seemes to point at it, in the 6. lib. Ænead.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 210 The Cock Vaticinating and Alectryomantick, ate up the Pickles.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 451 George Withers, the vaticinating poet of our civil wars.
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