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

In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

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

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

The white people all believed more or less in portents, warnings and dreams; and trusting a little to their vaticination now, they could not yield the lingering hope that he was still alive.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg

If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination?

From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel