vaticination

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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

"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of America."

From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

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

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

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