vaticinal

[ vuh-tis-uh-nl ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vaticinal¹

1580–90; < Latin vāticin ( us ) prophetic ( vāticin ( ārī ) to prophesy + -us adj. suffix) + -al ¹; vaticinate

Example Sentences

Any one in the wide world except the Marshams would have quickly recognized the inconvenience of having a vaticinal cook.

From Project Gutenberg

Mrs. Bush is a substantial, auburn-haired woman of middle years whose vaticinal gifts extend from prose to painting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Antonyms: improper, inappropriate, unsuitable. property, n. attribute, trait; estate, wealth, chattels, goods, resources, assets, inheritance. prophecy, n. prediction, foretelling, divination, soothsaying, prognostication, augury, vaticination. prophesy, v. prognosticate, foretell, divine, augur, predict, vaticinate. prophet, n. prognosticator, vaticinator, soothsayer, diviner, oracle, seer, python. prophetess, n. sibyl, pythoness. prophetic, a. prognostic, predictive, fatidical, oracular, divinatory, vaticinal. prosperity, n. weal, success, well-being.

From Project Gutenberg

At length their lips parted, when, in a low, solemn voice, that thrilled through the dark, deserted, and silent hall, they poured forth alternately the following vaticinal strain, each starting and trembling as he concluded:— "From Bank, Change, Mansion-house, Guildhall, Throgmorton, and Threadneedle, From London-stone, and London wall, When City housewife's wheedle To Brunswick, Russell, Bedford Squares, And Portland-place, their spouses, Anxious to give themselves great airs Of fashion in great houses, Then Gog shall start, and Magog shall Tremble upon his pedestal."

From Project Gutenberg

Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

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