{"id":3787,"date":"2007-01-09T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2007\/01\/09\/vaticination.html"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:41:14","slug":"vaticination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2007\/01\/09\/vaticination\/","title":{"rendered":"vaticination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had originally intended this blog to focus primarily on new coinages, to be a resource for early citations for dictionary makers and such.  'Cause, y'know, I figured I already knew most of the existing words that were worth knowing.  But most of the really new coinages that I encounter aren't that interesting to me--they're often just variations on existing words, with meanings that are obvious at a glance--whereas it's turned out that a high percentage of the words I encounter that I wasn't previously familiar with have been around for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: \"vaticination.\"<\/p>\n<p>I'm finally reading <cite>Tristram Shandy<\/cite>, and finding a variety of words I don't think I've ever seen before.  Early on in the book, there's a parson named Yorick, and a friend of his tells him that by his plain-speaking he makes too many enemies, who will one day do him harm.  The narrator continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Yorick<\/em> scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to him, but with a tear stealing from his eye[....]<\/p>\n<p>--chapter XII, p. 32 of the Everyman's Library edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A vaticination is a prediction, or the act of predicting. Comes straight from Latin.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had originally intended this blog to focus primarily on new coinages, to be a resource for early citations for dictionary makers and such. &#8216;Cause, y&#8217;know, I figured I already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}