vaticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvætɪk/

  韻: -ætɪk

形容詞

vatic (comparative more vatic, superlative most vatic)

1. Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:

     “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.

   • 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.