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

A great poet seems to require his birth in an age when there are about him great self-revelations of man, for his vaticination.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

If not, where was there room for marvel at Simeon's vaticination?

From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lisle, Lionel

What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias?

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

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