different between prophetic vs vaticinal

prophetic

English

Alternative forms

  • prophetical
  • prophetick (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p???f?t?k/

Adjective

prophetic (not comparable)

  1. of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet
  2. predicted, as by a prophecy

Translations

Derived terms

  • propheticness

prophetic From the web:

  • what prophetic mean


vaticinal

English

Etymology

See vaticinate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /v??t?s?n?l/

Adjective

vaticinal (comparative more vaticinal, superlative most vaticinal)

  1. Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
    • 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry
      He has left vaticinal rhymes, in which he predicted the union of Scotland with England, about the year 1279

References

  • vaticinal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

vaticinal From the web:

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