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vatic

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vat·ic  (vtk) also vat·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.

[From Latin vts, seer, of Celtic origin; see wet-1 in Indo-European roots.]

vatic [ˈvætɪk]
adj
Rare of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet; oracular
[from Latin vātēs prophet]
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Adj.1.vatic - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecyvatic - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"
Translations
vatic
adj (liter)prophetisch


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10 I consulted a clairvoyant in Los Angeles, and I asked this cucumber-shaped vatic if angels really had no lives of their own.
The "painful hues" and "tones" that betray the wound that "hurt" her into a life of poetry, namely her husband's suicide in 1959, are equally manifest in her vatic transcriptions.
The trouble-maker Retaining much of the prophet's capacity to unsettle, but without the hint of vatic madness and implicit claim to paranormal powers.
 
 
 
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