| 单词 | vaticinate |
| 释义 | vaticinate (once / 49454 pages) v When you vaticinate, you tell the future. A carnival fortune teller might vaticinate that you'll travel the world and have seven children. When you make a prediction about what will happen, whether it's a guess or a prophecy, you vaticinate. You might vaticinate about the next day's weather or what will happen on your favorite television show in the upcoming season. A magician might vaticinate what card you'll pull out of a deck. The Latin root word of vaticinate is vates, which means "prophet." WORD FAMILYvaticinate: vaticinated, vaticinates, vaticinating, vaticination, vaticinator+/vaticination: vaticinations/vaticinator: vaticinators USAGE EXAMPLESWhat the end might be he could not pretend to vaticinate, but "El Pretendiente" would never reign in Madrid. O'Shea, John Augustus, Romantic Spain—A Record of Personal...(2010) Which that it will certainly happen if you do not prevent it by your votes, I most confidently predict and vaticinate. Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis), The Casual Ward—academic and other...(2010) Catherine de Medicis brought Henry IV., then a child, to old Nostradamus, whom antiquaries esteem more for his chronicle of Provence than his vaticinating powers. Disraeli, Isaac, Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1(2010) 1v predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration Syn|Hypo|Hyper prophesy enlighten, irradiate give spiritual insight to; in religion anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise make a prediction about; tell in advance 2v foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy Hyper prophesy predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration |
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