Vatic

Word VATIC
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈvætɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Vatic"

What do we mean by vatic?

Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular. adjective

Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from a prophet or seer; prophetic; oracular; inspired.

Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular. adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy adjective

Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.

When the Pope abdicates the the Chair (cathedra) of Peter before his natural death, the Emeritus Pope is said to be on permanent Vatication. Vatication is like the ultimate staycation, since it is a vacation in the Vatican taken on a permanent basis by Emeritus Pope. Urban Dictionary

N. A mythical centre of negative religiosity. A beacon of despair for atheists. .............................. Urban Dictionary

A skate team which consists of the top skaters of mshs. One of the greatest teams throughout the whole school. Team colors: yellow and black Next place you can spot them: Mcormic place dec 27th - 29th The team gets mad ass for being so good at skating. Urban Dictionary

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The word "vatic" in example sentences

I'm very fond of the Fourth World series, and even enjoy the aspect of them that is most often mocked, Kirby's peculiar writing style, which to my ears at least has a kind of vatic poetry. ❋ Jeet Heer (2010)

The springy elegance of his mind, which serves to clarify the problems of life, not to muddle them with vatic obscurities, has brought him triple glory—as a poet, a translator no one has captured Molière in English better than he and a lyricist. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

Sent down through his vatic brotherhood the Christ that was to be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rolling from the personal to the historical, the vatic to the domestic, this is not an easy play to bring off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Non-vatic though I am, that looks like a good omen to me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The contemporary poet has largely eschewed any claim to the “vatic,” a mantle many poets a generation or three ago aspired to. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now, in her vatic vision of the world as a Jew, she wants to see women healed and changed with the restoration of the goddess in her many forms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To others, he is an impene-trable, loquacious charlatan, a mystificateur pouring forth vatic, rapturous tautologies. ❋ Enowning (2008)

"When the Ship Comes In" is as good an example as any, I suppose; Dylan in his vatic mode, descrying the shape of the coming day: ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)

So obscure, so mystifying, so all-encompassing is Heidegger's Being that, his vatic pretensions notwithstanding, it leaves nothing to interpret but other interpretations. ❋ Enowning (2007)

Ginsberg was the kind of poet who needed to get rolling, to feel the vatic, ecstatic surge of image and inspiration buoy him up. ❋ Rus Bowden (2006)

The difference is between civil and vatic writing, or between sexual intercourse and masturbation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Such an attempt aligns her with a Romantic conception of poetry as vatic office, as a supernaturally transgressive invocation of desires (see Rzepka). ❋ Unknown (2003)

This week's quotation to argue about, from James Wood, The Broken Estate: ...to oppose D.H. Lawrence's critics, one should say that he is precise and not only rhapsodic, that he is a practical writer as well as a vatic one, that he has superb powers not only of visual metaphor and visual concretion but an almost abstract delight in adjectives and adverbs. ❋ Rozk (2005)

An introduction of that kind can hardly help being at least a little pronunciamental (and in her photograph on the dust cover of the Oxford book Byatt looks positively vatic). ❋ Annan, Gabriele (1999)

[Emeritus] [Pope Benedict XVI] starts his permanent Vatication on [February 28], 2013, the day he abdicates the pontifical throne, doffs his signature red Prada loafers, and his papal ring is destroyed. ❋ Neologian-PJG (2013)

What up? [The Vatican] has [cancelled] [Easter]. Sounds more like something the vaticant would do. ❋ Gnostic3 (2020)

James busted a mad [tre] off [the pyramid]. He's gotta be on vatic skate team. Hell yeah man he's gettin all [the chicks]. I wish I was that good ❋ Bono-sucks (2007)

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