vaticination

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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 Clouston, William Alexander

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

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

"She came from that low doorway, beyond there at the right, where the two cypresses are; and she came at the very climax of my vaticination," said her ladyship.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

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

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 Watson, William Davy