{
  "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"
    ]
  },
  "vatic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": prophetic , oracular":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8va-tik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Stone\u2019s fiction abounds with Delphic oracles and vatic pronouncements like this. \u2014 Scott Bradfield, The New Republic , 20 May 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin v\u0101t\u0113s, v\u0101tis \"prophet, seer\" (akin to Gaulish\u2014Greek spelling\u2014 ou\u0101\u0301 teis \"those performing sacred rites,\" Old Irish f\u00e1ith \"seer, prophet,\" f\u00e1th \"prophecy, prophetic wisdom,\" Welsh gwawd \"song of praise, satire\"; Gothic wods \"possessed,\" Old English w\u014dd \"raging, senseless,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"frantic, furious,\" all going back to Germanic *w\u014dd- ; Old High German wuot \"rage, frenzy,\" going back to Germanic *w\u014ddi- ; Old English w\u014dth \"sound, noise, voice, song,\" Old Norse \u00f3\u00f0r \"mind, sense, song, poetry,\" both going back to Germanic *w\u014d\u00fea- ) + -ic entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1603, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043733"
  }
}