Now rare or Obs. [a. obs. F. vaticinateur (Cotgr.) or ad. L. vāticinātor, agent-noun f. vāticinārī to VATICINATE.] One who writes or utters vaticinations: a prognosticator or prophet.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 335. Cicero derided the Bœotian vaticinators for predicting victory to the Thebanes from the crowing of cocks.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xiii. The Owner of that Soul deserveth to be termed a Vaticinator or Prophet.
1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1859), II. 483. Poetical vaticinators are prophets only while we read their verses. Ibid. (1828), Chas. I., I. iv. 59. What vaticinator would have ventured to predict … that his Queen was then before him? Ibid. (1841), Amen. Lit. (1867), 500. That mystical vaticinator of past events, a conjectural historian.
