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How to pronounce vatic in English?

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Synonyms divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatical

Examples of vatic

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I found it harder than I had expected to find a voice for telling the myth that was not vatic, or chaunting, or admonitory in the wrong way.
From the guardian.co.uk
The result is her 70th book and her second memoir, which echoes the earnest and vaguely vatic tone of her first, A Bridge in Passing, published in 1954.
From the time.com
Elliptical and elusive, modeled on the vatic Ur-poem of the twentieth century, fully cognizant of the perils and terrors of modern life, Hart Crane's The Bridge nevertheless ends on a note of hope.
From the denverpost.com
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  • Divinatory: 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"
  • Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular