vaticinate
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What the end might be he could not pretend to vaticinate, but "El Pretendiente" would never reign in Madrid.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate†, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
You enquire after Dante's Prophecy: I have not done more than six hundred lines, but will vaticinate at leisure.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
I vaticinate what will be the upshot of all his schemes of reform.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
I can't pretend to foresee what will happen among you Englishers at this distance, but I vaticinate a row in Italy; in whilk case, I don't know that I won't have a finger in it.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
He pontificated and vaticinated from his retreat in the rue Saint-Sulpice, haranguing the reader with an apocalyptic language partaking in spots of the bitterness of an Isaiah.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
What he means by "cooking his mutton" has not yet transpired, but it is gloomily vaticinated that he intends to boil him down.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 by Various
Her carmine lips vaticinated with an extraordinary rapidity.
From Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
I have been occasionally struck at the Jeremiads of honest George Withers, the vaticinating poet of our civil wars: some of his works afford many solemn predictions.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Catherine de Médicis carried Henry IV, when a child, to old Nostradamus, who antiquaries esteem more for his Chronicle of Provence than for his vaticinating powers.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
Catherine de Medicis brought Henry IV., then a child, to old Nostradamus, whom antiquaries esteem more for his chronicle of Provence than his vaticinating powers.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
Never had the vaticinating style of oratory a greater vogue.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
Console yourself by vaticinating in the bower of your bed-chamber, as you count the feet upon your fingers, your own immortality.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
