vatical
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vat·ic
(văt′ĭk) also vat·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)adj.
Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular.
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Adj. | 1. | vatical - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic" |
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