- vatic
- adjective Etymology: Latin vates seer, prophet; akin to Old English wōth poetry, Old High German wuot madness, Old Irish fáith seer, poet Date: 1603 prophetic, oracular
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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vatic — index ominous, oracular, prophetic Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
vatic — “pertaining to a prophet,” c.1600, from L. vates (see VATES (Cf. vates)) + IC (Cf. ic) … Etymology dictionary
vatic — [vat′ik] adj. [< L vates, prophet < IE base * wāt , to be mentally excited > OE wōd, mad, MIr fāth, prophecy] of or characteristic of a prophet; prophetic … English World dictionary
vatic — adjective /ˈvætɪk/ Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning … Wiktionary
vatic — /vat ik/, adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a prophet. Also, vatical. [1595 1605; < L vat(es) seer + IC] * * * … Universalium
vatic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divini tory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatical, vaticinal, visionary. See FORESIGHT … English dictionary for students
vatic — adj. prophetic, pertaining to a prophet … English contemporary dictionary
VATIC — Vaticano … Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions
vatic — [ vatɪk] adjective literary predicting what will happen in the future. Origin C17: from L. vates prophet + ic … English new terms dictionary
vatic — vat·ic … English syllables
