vatic
Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈvætɪk/
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ˈvætɪk
Adjective
Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
Usage- not-comparable
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The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
“Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.
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[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
Here is that gush, vatic visions of those ‘fixed, fast-frozen relations’ melting […]
Adjective
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
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the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
mantic powers
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a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions