| 单词 |
vaticinator |
| 释义 |
vaˈticinator Now rare or Obs. [a. obs. F. vaticinateur (Cotgr.) or ad. L. vāticinātor, agent-noun f. vāticinārī to vaticinate.] One who writes or utters vaticinations: a prognosticator or prophet.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 335 Cicero derided the Bœotian vaticinators for predicting victory to the Thebanes from the crowing of cocks. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xiii, The Owner of that Soul deserveth to be termed a Vaticinator or Prophet. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1859) II. 483 Poetical vaticinators are prophets only while we read their verses. 1828― Chas. I, I. iv. 59 What vaticinator would have ventured to predict..that his Queen was then before him? 1841― Amen. Lit. (1867) 500 That mystical vaticinator of past events, a conjectural historian. |

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