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vaticinate

[ vuh-tis-uh-neyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

vaticinated, vaticinating.
  1. to prophesy.


vaticinate

/ vəˈtɪsɪnəl; ˌvætɪsɪˈneɪʃən; vəˈtɪsɪˌneɪt /

verb

  1. rare.
    to foretell; prophesy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپˌԲٴǰ, noun
  • vaticinal, adjective
  • vaticination, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·پi·Բtǰ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of vaticinate1

First recorded in 1615–25; from Latin پٳܲ (past participle of پī “to prophesy”), equivalent to پ- (stem of ŧ “seer”) + -cin- (combining form of canere “to sing, prophesy”) + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of vaticinate1

C17: from Latin پī from ŧ prophet + canere to foretell
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What the end might be he could not pretend to vaticinate, but "El Pretendiente" would never reign in Madrid.

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I have been occasionally struck at the Jeremiads of honest George Withers, the vaticinating poet of our civil wars: some of his works afford many solemn predictions.

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Which that it will certainly happen if you do not prevent it by your votes, I most confidently predict and vaticinate.

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Catherine de Medicis brought Henry IV., then a child, to old Nostradamus, whom antiquaries esteem more for his chronicle of Provence than his vaticinating powers.

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You enquire after Dante's Prophecy: I have not done more than six hundred lines, but will vaticinate at leisure.

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