Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who vaticinates or predicts; a prophet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who vaticinates; a prophet.
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- noun One who
vaticinates ; aprophet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an authoritative person who divines the future
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whereupon the owner of that soul deserveth to be termed a vaticinator, or prophet.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Whereupon the owner of that soul deserveth to be termed a vaticinator, or prophet.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Whereupon the owner of that soul deserveth to be termed a vaticinator, or prophet.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In the meanwhile you must denude your mind of every human passion or affection, such as are love and hatred, fear and hope, for as of old the great vaticinator, most famous and renowned prophet
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In the meanwhile you must denude your mind of every human passion or affection, such as are love and hatred, fear and hope, for as of old the great vaticinator, most famous and renowned prophet
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I was also engaged as sporting prophet to the Tipster, and was not less successful than my contemporaries as a vaticinator of future events.
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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He has concluded what his countrymen will hereafter cherish as the legacy of genius -- you see him now changed; and the restlessness of his soul is thrown into his very gestures -- could you listen to the vaticinator!
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet Tiresias, who used always, by way of a preface, to say openly and plainly at the beginning of his divinations and predictions that what he was to tell would either come to pass or not.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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