vaticination

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

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

The powers of vaticination possessed by such judges of drama can be fairly tested in the career of Salome on the European stage, apart from the opera.

From La Sainte Courtisane by Wilde, Oscar

Rose wondered whether this were a general or a particular vaticination.

From The Chaperon by James, Henry

No order, no system, no method anywhere in mundane things, and therefore no power of vision and vaticination.

From The Jericho Road by Adkins, W. Bion

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