Vatican Hill... Hill of prophecy? (Adam, A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, 1805)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: a word definition/derivation
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "...thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess..." Revelation 2:20 "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT... The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. ... And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." Revelation 17:5,9,18

  VATES, is, m. & f. (q. a fari) one who foretold future events, a prophet or prophetess, a diviner or soothsayer [...] — VATICĬNIUM, i, n. a prediction, an oracle or prophecy [...] — VATICĬNUS, a. prophetick [...] — VĀTĬCĬNĀRI, (satum & cano.) to prophecy, to foretell, to divine [...] — VATICINĀTIO, ōnis, f. a prophecying, divination; a prophecy, a prediction [...] — Vaticinātor, ōris, m. a prophet, one who foretells things to come [...]
"Vates," Adam, Alexander, A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue,
 Edinburgh: Printed for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, London; Bell and Bradfute, W. Creech, E. Balfour,
W. Laing, P. Hill, Manners and Miller, A. Constable and Co. and J. anderson, Edinburgh;
By C. Stewart, printer to the University, 1805 (, pp. 777-778).


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