vaticination

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The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

And yet, having had no experience of the etiquette due to prophets when the orgy of vaticination is upon them, he was not quite comfortable on the question of being scathed.

From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Paget, Walter

"She came from that low doorway, beyond there at the right, where the two cypresses are; and she came at the very climax of my vaticination," said her ladyship.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special Providence which he himself was accustomed to say presided over the British Empire.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe