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Vaticination

Vaticination \Va*tic`i*na"tion\, n. [L. vaticinatio.] Prediction; prophecy.

It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vaticination

c.1600, from Latin vaticinationem (nominative vaticinatio), noun of action from past participle stem of vaticinari (see vaticinate).

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vaticination

n. Prediction, prophecy.

WordNet
vaticination

n. knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) [syn: prophecy, prognostication]

Usage examples of "vaticination".

Nor had Mrs Harold Smith, nor Miss Dunstable, nor had a hundred others who now either listened to the vaticinations of Mr Towers, or to the immediate report made of them.

The palmers and the bandits, the cateran who had tried to kill him, Iachimo and the rogue star-sailor and its creatures, the two pythonesses of the Department of Vaticination, the old guard, Coronetes, and all the clerks and soldiers in the Department of Indigenous Affairs, the mage and the soldiers who had taken the peel-house, the traitor Torin, the Constable of Aeolis and his sons and the mob, Prefect Corin and the crew of the picketboat, Dr.

The palmers and the bandits, the cateran who had tried to kill him, lachimo and the rogue star-sailor and its creatures, the two pythonesses of the Department of Vaticination, the old guard, Coronetes, and all the clerks and soldiers in the Department of Indigenous Affairs, the mage and the soldiers who had taken the peel-house, the traitor Torin, the Constable of Aeolis and his sons and the mob, Prefect Corin and the crew of the picketboat, Dr.

The ordinary citizens of Ys would believe a roadside cartomancer as readily as the pythonesses of the Department of Vaticination, and other departments no longer called upon its services when planning their business.