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VATICINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
Synonyms:
prognostication; prophecy; vaticination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("vaticination" is a kind of...):
anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vaticination"):
crystal gazing (staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events)
divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)
Derivation:
vaticinate (foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy)
vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)
