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- verb Present participle of
vaticinate .
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Examples
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And some say that the same happens in the case of those who have one or other testis excised, not speaking truth but vaticinating what will happen from probabilities and jumping at the conclusion that it is so before seeing that it proves to be so.
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Apollo, when they are drawing near their latter end do ordinarily become prophets, and by the inspiration of that god sing sweetly in vaticinating things which are to come.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Apollo, when they are drawing near their latter end do ordinarily become prophets, and by the inspiration of that god sing sweetly in vaticinating things which are to come.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Console yourself by vaticinating in the bower of your bed-chamber, as you count the feet upon your fingers, your own immortality.
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Never had the vaticinating style of oratory a greater vogue.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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In spite of all the Cassandra screams of the priesthood, vaticinating universal ruin, the young old earth, fresh every spring, shall remain under God's preserving providence, and humanity's inexhaustible generations renewedly reign over its kingdoms, forever.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Nostradamus, whom antiquaries esteem more for his chronicle of Provence than his vaticinating powers.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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After the same manner, poets, who are under the protection of Apollo, when they are drawing near their latter end do ordinarily become prophets, and by the inspiration of that god sing sweetly in vaticinating things which are to come.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Reader, "in which the shepherd dwells with much satisfaction on his peculiar vaticinating talents.
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