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vaticinating

vaticinating is the present participle and gerund of vaticinate.

Meaning of vaticinate

Verb

vaticinate (third-person singular simple present vaticinates, present participle vaticinating, simple past and past participle vaticinated)

  1. (ambitransitive, formal) To predict or foretell future events; to prophesy or presage.
    • With a slow step, and tears in her eyes, Mrs. Glentworth, vaticinating trouble of some kind, proceeded to cut the string and break the seal of her pacquet.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27

Questions about vaticinating

What is vaticinating the present participle and gerund of?
Vaticinating is the present participle and gerund of vaticinate.

Words near vaticinating in the dictionary

  1. vaticides
  2. vaticinal
  3. vaticinate
  4. vaticinated
  5. vaticinates
  6. vaticinating
  7. vaticination
  8. vaticinations
  9. vaticinator
  10. vaticinators
  11. vaticinatory

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