vaticination

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"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

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

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

Here are the miraculous Three Days; heralding, in thunder, great things to Torrijos and others; filling with babblement and vaticination the mouths and hearts of all democratic men.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

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