1. to prophesy or predict future events
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The oracle would vaticinate the outcome of battles for anxious generals.
• Ancient priests claimed they could vaticinate by reading the flight patterns of birds.
• She seemed to vaticinate the company’s downfall years before it happened.
• The mystic vaticinated that great changes would come with the new century.
• Medieval scholars often attempted to vaticinate political events through astrology.
• The prophet vaticinated a time of peace after years of war.