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单词 vatic
释义

vatic

/ˈvatɪk /
adjective literary
Describing or predicting what will happen in the future.Critics come in vastly varying styles: from subtle, self-effacing, and sardonic, to oracular, vatic, apocalyptic, to plain damned intelligent....
  • It was a tradition of vatic utterance, such as that represented by Blake - the Blake of the prophetic books.
  • This poem is very much in the vatic mode, and it was precisely for that reason, Jacobs reminded us, that the poet came to despise it, refusing to include it in later collections of his verse.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin vates 'prophet' + -ic.

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