No order, no system, no method anywhere in mundane things, and therefore no power of vision and vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
There was no proportion in his mind; and vaticination and twaddle rolled off his eloquent tongue as chance would have it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
And in reality he that foretells the motions of the planets, or the effects of medicines, or the result of chemical or mechanical experiments, may be said to do it by natural vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
The white people all believed more or less in portents, warnings and dreams; and trusting a little to their vaticination now, they could not yield the lingering hope that he was still alive. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Plotinus observes, in his third Ennead, that the art of presaging is in some sort the reading of natural letters denoting order, and that so far forth as analogy obtains in the universe, there may be vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
What better is this than the absurd vaticination of. From Wordnik.com. [The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
But this vaticination was shortly to prove erroneous. From Wordnik.com. [Hume (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
Everybody's vaticination of a servile war seems to be wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the Week] Reference
In one section of society I hear voices of melancholy vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences] Reference
Had she trusted rather to woman's vaticination, matters had been better for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Purchase Price] Reference
The Doctor was by brevet or vaticination, to make the grade easier to my pocket. From Wordnik.com. [On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners] Reference
His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
"You rate my powers of vaticination too high," he said slowly, "and -- you are groping after an ideal.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
The art is merely Geomancy in its rudest shape; a mode of vaticination which, from its wide diffusion, must be of high antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Letters, and that consensus of poetry and science foreseen by Wordsworth, may well be taken into account in any vaticination of the early future. From Wordnik.com. [0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Almost every notable man in Piedmont contributed his quota of melancholy vaticination, in which the note, “I told you so!” was already audible. From Wordnik.com. [Cavour]
Anything like a categorical answer to these questions would have to be a work of vaticination or of effrontery, -- possibly as much to the point the one as the other. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
His gifts of dialectical vaticination made them look upon him as the lively oracle of the special Providence which he himself was accustomed to say presided over the British Empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living]
And after the vaticination he sat down to a large dish of veal cutlets, fried bacon and potatoes, with a jug of ale, and "made one of the best suppers he ever made in his life," finally. From Wordnik.com. [George Borrow The Man and His Books] Reference
It was employed as a seat by the venerable men to whom that gift was communicated; and, as long as the spirit of vaticination continued to enlighten their minds, the slab remained steady for their accommodation. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
Under this gloom of vaticination the rehearsals were nevertheless proceeded with -- the brunt of the quarrels among the players falling wholly on Goldsmith, for the manager seems to have withdrawn in despair; while all the. From Wordnik.com. [Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series] Reference
Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849)] Reference
But it is impossible to hear, without a deep sense of original power, the oracular voices that issue from the cell; enigmatical, like the ancient responses, and like them illuminating doubtful vaticination with flashes of wild and half poetic fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
"A vaticination," says the commentator, "of the Spanish discovery of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849] Reference
What better is this than the absurd vaticination of Teiresias? —’ “Whate’er I say. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
"vaticination after the event" may draw conclusions therefrom as to the date of the Gospels in which its several forms occur. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
Muliebrity (the condition of being a woman), or soothsayers putting out their latest vaticination (prophecy), the available lexicon may soon get slimmer. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
Such a vaticination as regards. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference
But his vaticination in my heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
Commentaire sur une vaticination. From Wordnik.com. [Alea] Reference
= vaticinio = vaticination, prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Novelas Cortas] Reference
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