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To put or transfer into a vat.

As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.

Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical. Bp. Hall.

A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.

The council held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility.

The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.

One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.

The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet. "The caitiff vaticide." Pope.

Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. T. Warton.

To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.

Prediction; prophecy. It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. I. Taylor.

One who vaticinates; a prophet.

A prediction; a vaticination. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

To heap up. [Obs.]

A heaping up; accumulation. [R.] Johnson.

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

To make active. [Obs.]

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

ls in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]