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Definition of "vates" []

  • A poet or bard who is divinely inspired. (noun)

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Use "vates" in a sentence
  • "` Madame, the Latin word vates means at once poet and prophet — a philological observation which most satisfactorily accounts for the striking phenomenon you have just mentioned."
  • "But in ancient times the prophet and poet were often the same, and one word (as, in Latin, "vates") was used for both."
  • "Among the Romans a poet was called vates, which is as much as a diviner, foreseer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words, vaticinium and vaticinari, is manifest; so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge."
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