Whereupon the owner of that soul deserveth to be termed a vaticinator, or prophet. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
I was also engaged as sporting prophet to the Tipster, and was not less successful than my contemporaries as a vaticinator of future events. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference
He has concluded what his countrymen will hereafter cherish as the legacy of genius -- you see him now changed; and the restlessness of his soul is thrown into his very gestures -- could you listen to the vaticinator!. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
Epistemon, the custom of the grand vaticinator and prophet Tiresias, who used always, by way of a preface, to say openly and plainly at the beginning of his divinations and predictions that what he was to tell would either come to pass or not. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
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