vaticinar — meaning in English

English meaning

• prophesy verb To predict what will happen, especially by claiming divine or special insight.
• spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.

Senses

vaticinar is used for these senses in English:

• prophesy To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
• spell (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun. [from 19th c.]

spell — full definition

1. noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
2. verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
3. verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
4. noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.

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