vaticinate
/vaˈtɪsɪneɪt
/verb [no object] rare
Foretell the future: he vaticinated a period of peace for the continent he spent much of his time vaticinating on learned panels...
- The experts vaticinate that, in some years, the European electrical sector will be reduced to five or six groups.
- In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end.
Derivatives
vaticinal
- Economists in our day try to utter all kinds of vaticinal projections about the future.
- She is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting.
vaticination
- Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong.
- He composed poems on a number of subjects, including eulogy, request poetry, nature and love poetry, and vaticination as well as religious poetry and a poem praising the famous cross at Caerlleon.
- This theory is hard to shake, its vaticinations being so far well vindicated.
vaticinator
- Servius apparently followed Cicero's De divinatione in distinguishing furor-driven vaticinators from artful soothsayers and augurs.
- The lectus born by four lecticarii and followed by the orator, pontifex, vaticinator and blood relations completed the procession.
vaticinatory
- Nearly all of the book consists of poetry, mostly in the form of religious, vaticinatory, panegyric, and legendary poetry.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin vaticinat- 'prophesied', from the verb vaticinari, from vates 'prophet'.