different between prophetic vs vatic

English

Borrowed from Middle French prophétique, from Latin proph?ticus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (proph?tikós).

prophetic (not comparable)

From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) +? -ic.

vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)

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.

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