vaticinate
IPA: vˈætʌsʌneɪt
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly formal) To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
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Examples of "vaticinate" in Sentences
- Paul, I vaticinate that the mansuetude of your response will bring out the best of my muliebrity.
- I am reassured, however, by the reflection that I am not expected to look into the future and vaticinate.
- You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation.
- But Gwyneth and I are not uncomfortably provided for, and I no longer contribute paragraphs of gossip to the Pimlico Postboy, nor yet do I vaticinate in the columns of the Tipster.
- No less futile were it to waste declamatory tears upon the strife of absolutism with new-fledged democracy, or to vaticinate a reign of socialistic terror for the immediate future.
- By this means alone, the divinity of Jesus Christ and the truth of our holy religion has been established in many minds; for it is not in the power of mortals thus to vaticinate future events.
- The unique appeal of the great mythological compositions of the Renaissance results ultimately from the fact that, whether they smile or vaticinate, they are shining through veils: Vela faciunt honorem secreti.
- Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of the Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually.