vaticination
Example Sentences
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 William Davy Watson
"You rate my powers of vaticination too high," he said slowly, "and—you are groping after an ideal."
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
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 Walter Paget
