vaticination

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There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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

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

I believe, however, that Lord Bacon may claim the merit of having been the first to notice this vaticination.

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various