vaticination

[ vuh-tis-uh-ney-shuh n, vat-uh-suh- ]

/ vəˌtɪs əˈneɪ ʃən, ˌvæt ə sə- /

an act of prophesying.

a prophesy.

Origin of vaticination

First recorded in 1595–1605, vaticination is from the Latin word vāticinātiōn- (stem of vaticinātiō). See vaticinate, -ion

Its speculation can no longer be stigmatized as vaticination in vacuo, nor its results as illusory.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8 |Various
He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination.

Charles Darwin |Grant Allen
Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination.

Trevethlan: Volume 1 |William Davy Watson
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination.

Book of Wise Sayings |W. A. Clouston

This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa |David Livingstone