{
  "vaticinate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": prophesy , predict":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1623, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101tus , past participle of v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy, warn,\" verbal derivative of *v\u0101ticinium \"act of prophesying,\" from v\u0101t\u0113s \"prophet, seer\" + canere \"to sing, chant, utter\" + -ium , deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vatic , chant entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "va-",
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ti-s\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "augur",
      "call",
      "forecast",
      "foretell",
      "predict",
      "presage",
      "prognosticate",
      "prophesy",
      "read"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095759",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "vaticination":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": prediction":[],
      ": the act of prophesying":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the myopic prewar vaticinations that the conflict would be brief and relatively painless"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1603, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014dn-, v\u0101ticin\u0101ti\u014d , from v\u0101ticin\u0101r\u012b \"to make divinely inspired predictions, prophesy\" + -ti\u014dn-, ti\u014d deverbal noun suffix \u2014 more at vaticinate":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "va-",
      "v\u0259-\u02ccti-s\u0259-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "auguring",
      "augury",
      "bodement",
      "cast",
      "forecast",
      "forecasting",
      "foretelling",
      "predicting",
      "prediction",
      "presaging",
      "prognosis",
      "prognostic",
      "prognosticating",
      "prognostication",
      "prophecy",
      "prophesy",
      "soothsaying"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234710",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}