Definition of "vaticinate" []

• To prophesy; foretell. See Synonyms at foretell. (verb-transitive)
• To be a prophet. (verb-intransitive)

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• "Paul, I vaticinate that the mansuetude of your response will bring out the best of my muliebrity."
• "You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation."
• "Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of the Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually."