Crossword-Solution: VATICINATOR 11 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Such was of old, quoth 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.

View him in the stillness of meditation, his eager spirit busied over a copious page, and his eye sparkling with gladness! 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! But the next age only will quote his predictions.

Power only could accomplish that great purpose, and hence our Vaticinator fixed on the highest as the most likely; and the deep foresight of an obscure country priest, which required two centuries to be verified, became a great moral and political prediction.

And for what was never ascertained in its own age we dare not confide to that mystical vaticinator of past events, a conjectural historian! Our interpreter of allegory was honest as well as hardy; in truth, he is sometimes startled at the historical revelations which crowd on his mind.

For this tale our antiquary WEEVER has been quipped by our antiquary ANTHONY à WOOD, for his excessive credulity, as if Anthony would infer that he himself was incredulous on all supernatural disclosures! The authority was, however, unquestionable, for it came from the agent himself in this dark work, the opener of the grave, the spectator of the grim vaticinator, the listener to the sepulchral voice.