It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. |
Thus Dillard echoes Carlyle's sentiments that vaticination, or the act of prophesying, is a futile means of understanding the world. |
He was himself destined in another thirty years to prove the truth of his own vaticination. |
Such lore had given her mind a sombre hue, and inclined her to indulge in the practice of vaticination. |
Its speculation can no longer be stigmatized as vaticination in vacuo, nor its results as illusory. |
This vaticination, which loses much in the translation, I have given rather fully, as it shows an observant mind. |