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vaticination

NOUN
  1. knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

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  • Plotinus observes, in his third Ennead, that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order, and that so far forth as analogy obtains in the universe, there may be vaticination. Natural Vaticination and a Golden Chain
  • This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world.
  • This theory is hard to shake, its vaticinations being so far well vindicated.
  • Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed (Greek). Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. Nature
  • Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong.
  • And in reality he that foretells the motions of the planets, or the effects of medicines, or the result of chemical or mechanical experiments, may be said to do it by natural vaticination. Natural Vaticination and a Golden Chain
  • The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity. First footsteps in East Africa
  • Having a specimen of the new shilling in his pocket he himself was feeling particularly bobbish, and could not understand the gloomy vaticinations of Lord BUCKMASTER and Lord Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31
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