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Vatical

adjective
1.
Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy.  Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic.  "Mantic powers" , "A kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"






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"Vatical" Quotes from Famous Books



... Italian mottoes or dedication-phrases. But what is interesting about it is the evidence it gives of deep familiarity not only with Italian but with French models. This appears both in such words as "jouissance," "thesaurise," "esperance," "souvenance," "vatical" (a thoroughly Ronsardising word), with others too many to mention, and in other characteristics. Mr. Sidney Lee, in his most valuable collection of these sonneteers, endeavours to show that this ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury



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