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VATICINATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vaticinate mean?
• VATICINATE (verb)
The verb VATICINATE has 2 senses:
1. predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
2. foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy
Familiarity information: VATICINATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
prophesy; vaticinate
Hypernyms (to "vaticinate" is one way to...):
anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise (make a prediction about; tell in advance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vaticinate"):
vaticinate (foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy)
enlighten; irradiate (give spiritual insight to; in religion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
vaticination (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))
vaticinator (an authoritative person who divines the future)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "vaticinate" is one way to...):
prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
vaticination (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))
vaticinator (an authoritative person who divines the future)
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