a. Also 7 vatick. [f. L. vāt-ēs a prophet, poet + -IC.] Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a prophet or seer; prophetic, inspired.
1603. Bp. Hall, King’s Prophecy, xvii. My puis-nè Muse presumed to recite The vatick lines of that Cumæan Dame.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Vis. Poets, clxxviii, If every vatic word that sweeps To change the world must pale their lips.
1868. Good Words, 1 Jan., 53. To the sound of their vatic exordiums did Roland Laporte and Jean Cavallier march from their fastnesses.
1871. H. B. Forman, Our Living Poets, 291. The thought … betrays enough of the vatic exaltation of the seer.
