a. [f. L. vāticin-us prophetic + -AL.] Of the nature of, characterized by, vaticination or prophecy; prophetic, vatic.
1586. J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 1. Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis, his vaticinall historie of the Conquest of Ireland.
1645. Ussher, Body Div., 14. Which are the Prosaicall books? Such as are for the most part writen in prose, and foretell things to come; whence also more especially they are termed Propheticall, or vaticinall.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 304. Dion … disregarded the vaticinall portent.
1775. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840), I. 1. Thomas Leirmonth, or Rymer,… has left vaticinal rhymes, in which he predicted the union of Scotland with England.
1807. G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. II. vi. 285. He was induced…, contrary to the vaticinal warnings of Columba, to carry a mixed body of various people, into … Ireland.
1844. Q. Rev., LXXIV. 230. In the true vaticinal spirit of poetry and prophecy.
1897. Advance (Chicago), 30 Sept., 438/2. His … vaticinal conclusions have proved to be flabby.
