vaticinate
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From Latin vāticinātus, perfect passive participle of vāticinor (“foretell, prophesy”).
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vaticinate (third-person singular simple present vaticinates, present participle vaticinating, simple past and past participle vaticinated)
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly formal) To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27:
- With a slow step, and tears in her eyes, Mrs. Glentworth, vaticinating trouble of some kind, proceeded to cut the string and break the seal of her pacquet.
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to prophesy or presage
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vaticinate
- inflection of vaticinare:
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vaticinate f pl
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vāticināte
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vaticinate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of vaticinar combined with te