English

Noun

vaticination ‎(plural vaticinations)

1. Prediction, prophecy.
   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 28)

     Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye.

   • 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

     Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.

Related terms

• vaticinatory

Anagrams

• inactivation