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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin vates seer, prophet; akin to Old English w?th poetry, Old High German wuot madness, Old Irish fáith seer, poet Date: 1603 prophetic, oracular

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. formal prophetic or inspired. Etymology: L vates prophet