vaticination

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Everybody knows the description given by Virgil of the Cumaean sybil at the moment of vaticination: "The god, the god, she cried," etc.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination.

From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America."

From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various

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