vatical

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(văt′ĭk) also vat·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)

adj.

Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.

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

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Adj.

vatical - 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"

divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic

prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"

vatical

adjective

Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means:

augural, divinitory, fatidic, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vaticinal, visionary.

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