vatic

[ vat-ik ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet.

vatic

/ ˈvætɪk /

adjective

1. rare.
   of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet; oracular

Word History and Origins

Origin of vatic¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin vāt(ēs) “seer, prophet, poet, bard” + -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of vatic¹

C16: from Latin vātēs prophet

Example Sentences

He wrote ceaselessly, torrentially, and as he churned away he easily became vatic, windy, merely reckless where he had once been adventurous.

From The New Yorker

It is also, in its more intimate scenes, so funny and argumentative, so vatic, so sharp and so unconcerned with gay respectability that you can see a straight line leading back to “The Boys in the Band.”

From New York Times

Whitman’s first installment strikes a vatic, exclamatory note: “Manly health! Is there not a kind of charm — a fascinating magic in the words?” he writes, before outlining the path to “a perfect body, a perfect blood.”

From New York Times

But my days in Sils-Maria being finite, and my chances of a return visit being small, I eventually retreated to the Waldhaus lounge to read the philosopher’s vatic words in English while gazing at the mountains.

From New York Times

Just as one ought to be suspicious of the word "proper" when hoarsely brayed from the glistening lips of Cameron, one ought to be suspicious of it on a menu: is it anything more than a vatic invocation of old-school purity?

From The Guardian