vaticination

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For which cause Apollo, the god of vaticination, was surnamed Loxias.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

For the rest, you will be tired of hearing that, for vaticination, you, to excess, simplify.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

Had any one indulged in such a vaticination, however, his prediction would have been most ignominiously falsified by subsequent events.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

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

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