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Vatic

Definition: Vatic

Vatic

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Vatic

Synonyms: divinatory (adj), mantic (adj), sibyllic (adj), sibylline (adj), vatical (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Vatic

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Books

  • Complete Scriptual Index Vatic (reference)

  • Religin, costumbres e historia de los antiguos mexicanos : libro explicativo del llamado Cdice Vaticano A : Codex Vatic. Lat. 3738 de la Biblioteca Apostlica Vaticana (reference)

  • The Principles of Design and Operation of the Brain: Proceedings of a Study Week Organized by a Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Casina Pius Iv, Vatic (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Vatic

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Discobolo di Mirone, Sala della Biga, Mus. Vatic., Roma / Anderson.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vatic

"Vatic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vatic" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vatic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vatic

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vatic

Language Translations for "vatic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

profetik (fateful, fatidical, oracular, orphic, predictive, Sibylline). (various references)

   

Czech

  

prorocký (fatidical, oracular, prescient, prophetic, prophetical). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

látnoki (clairvoyant, divining, fatidical, prophetic, prophetical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aticvay

   

Portuguese

  

profético (predictor, prophylactic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пророческий (fatidical, oracular, predictive, prophetic, sibylline). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

proročanski (divination, predictive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vatídico. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kehanet kabilinden. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

натхненний (afflated, animated, high-spirited, inspired, vatical), пророчий (fatidic, fatidical, oracular, oraculous, precursive, precursory, predictive, prognostic, prophetic, prophetical, vatical). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vatic

Derivations

Words beginning with "vatic": vatical, vaticide, vaticides, vaticinal, vaticinate, vaticinated, vaticinates, vaticinating, vaticination, vaticinations, vaticinator, vaticinators. (additional references)

Words ending with "vatic": sylvatic. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vatic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aitc, Atik, avic, Cvejic, latic, matic, patic, vaib, vaig, vait, vakif, valic, vami, vamic, Vanick, varice, varix, vata, Vathi, vati, vatie, vatis, vatu, vaty, vaxic, veti, vetti, vitac, vitc, Vitek, viti, vitic, Vojtech, votic, vstic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Vatic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-t-v"

-1 letter: vita.

-2 letters: act, ait, cat, tav, tic, vac, vat, via.

-3 letters: ai, at, it, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-t-v"
 

+1 letter: active, atavic, cavity, viatic.

 

+2 letters: actives, captive, cavetti, vacuity, vatical, venatic, viaduct, viatica, victual, voltaic.

 

+3 letters: activate, actively, activism, activist, activity, activize, captives, cavatina, cavatine, cavitary, cavitate, cavitied, cavities, coactive, conative, creative, cultivar, curative, enactive, inactive, invocate, locative, navicert, outcavil, reactive, sylvatic, tovarich, tractive, vacating, vacation, vaticide, veracity, vertical, vesicant, vesicate, viaducts, viatical, viaticum, vicarate, victoria, victuals, villatic, vivacity, vocalist, vocality, vocation, vocative, voracity, vortical.

 

+4 letters: acceptive, acclivity, accretive, activated, activates, activator, activisms, activists, activized, activizes, addictive, adductive, adjective, advecting, advection, advective, affective, archivist, archivolt, atavistic, avocation, bioactive, calmative, captivate, captivity, causative, cavaletti, cavatinas, caveating, cavitated, cavitates, cavorting, coevality, combative, concavity, covariant, cultivars, cultivate, curatives, educative, evocation, evocative, factitive, fricative, impactive, incurvate, invocated, invocates, leviratic, locatives, lucrative, navicerts, outcavils, oviductal, placative, proactive, revictual, vacations, vaccinate, vacillate, vacuities, vagotonic, vasotocin, vaticides, vaticinal, vectorial, ventifact, verticals, vesicants, vesicated, vesicates, viaticums, vicarates, vicariant, vicariate, victorias, victualed, victualer, vindicate, vocalists, vocations, vocatives.

 

+5 letters: accusative, activating, activation, activators, activeness, activistic, activities, activizing, adjectival, adjectives, adjunctive, advections, advocating, advocation, advocative, afflictive, architrave, archivists, archivolts, ascriptive, attractive, aviatrices, aviculture, avocations, calmatives, cantilever, capacitive, captivated, captivates, captivator, causatives, cavalletti, cavitating, cavitation, chauvinist, clavierist, cofavorite, cogitative, constative, copulative, creatively, creativity, cultivable, cultivated, cultivates, cultivator, cumulative, cunctative, curatively, czarevitch, deactivate, decorative, detractive, divaricate, equivocate, evacuating, evacuation, evacuative, evaporitic, eviscerate, evocations, excavating, excavation, excitative, execrative, extractive, fricatives, inactivate, inactively, inactivity, inchoative, incubative, incurvated, incurvates, indicative, inveteracy, invocating, invocation, invocatory, lacerative, nativistic, novaculite, outachieve, outcaviled, overacting, overaction, overactive, reactivate, reactively, reactivity, recitative, recitativi, recitativo, recreative, refractive, revanchist, revictuals, revocation, tovariches, ulcerative, uncreative, vacationed, vacationer, vaccinated, vaccinates, vaccinator, vacillated, vacillates, vacillator, varicosity, vasculitis, vasoactive, vasotocins, vaticinate, ventifacts, veracities, vertically, vesicating, vesiculate, vicariants, vicariates, victualers, victualing, victualled, victualler, vindicated, vindicates, vindicator, vitalistic, vivacities, vocalities, vocational, vocatively, vociferant, vociferate, voracities, vortically, vorticella.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vatic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 74 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    -    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0074 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5667867569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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