English
Etymology
From L. vates �seer, poet�.
Pronunciation
IPA|/'vætɪk/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ætɪk|-ætɪk
Adjective
en-adj
- Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
#*1993, w:Anthony Burgess|Anthony Burgess, w:A Dead Man in Deptford|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.
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