vatic

English

Etymology

From Latin vates ‘seer, poet’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvætɪk/

  Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)

1. Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:

     “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.