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

"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 Mitford, Bertram

Rose wondered whether this were a general or a particular vaticination.

From The Chaperon by James, Henry

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

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

If it stooped in submission to any such expectation as that expressed, and dedicated itself to the crude vaticination of the transitory emotions and opinions, it had better turn journalism at once.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean