How To Use Vaticination In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world.
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This theory is hard to shake, its vaticinations being so far well vindicated.
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Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed (Greek).
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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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
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Every grim vaticination made by Malthus turned out to be wrong.
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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
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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
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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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Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye, and a promissory look attending it, that he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety. —
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations.
The Life of Reason
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For the common voice of the philosophers, together with the opinion of the people, asserteth for an irrefragable truth that vaticination is seldom by the heavens bestowed on any without the concomitancy of a little frenzy and a head-shaking, not only when the said presaging virtue is infused, but when the person also therewith inspired declareth and manifesteth it unto others.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The vaticinations of Thomas are cited by various later chroniclers, and had as much credit in England as in Scotland.
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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.
