vatic

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin vates ‘seer, poet’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'vætɪk/

  Rhymes: -ætɪk

[edit] Adjective

vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)

1. Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:

     “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.