Definition

1. Verb:
   • To foretell or predict future events, often through or as if through divine inspiration, prophecy, or supernatural insight.
   • To reveal or declare something about the future as if by prophetic power.

Usage

• Verb (transitive): To predict something.
  • The ancient oracle was said to vaticinate the rise and fall of empires.
• Verb (intransitive): To make a prophecy.
  • The seer would vaticinate for all who sought her counsel.

Examples

• The mystic claimed to vaticinate the outcome of the war with uncanny accuracy.
• It is not for mortals to vaticinate the precise workings of fate.
• His writings seem to vaticinate many of the technological advances of the 21st century.

Advanced Usage

• "to vaticinate upon/about": To make prophecies concerning a specific subject.
  • The elders would gather to vaticinate upon the fate of the coming harvest.

Variants and Related Words

• Vaticination (noun): The act of prophesying; a prophetic utterance.
  • His vaticination was met with both hope and skepticism.
• Vaticinator (noun): A prophet; one who foretells the future.
  • She was renowned throughout the land as a powerful vaticinator.

Synonyms

• Prophesy: To predict what will happen in the future, especially by divine inspiration.
• Foretell: To tell of a future event beforehand; predict.
• Predict: To declare or indicate in advance.

Antonyms

• Report: To give an account of something that has already happened.
• Recount: To tell a story or describe past events.

Verb

1. foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy
2. predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration