ˈvad.ik adjective
Etymology: Latin vat es seer, prophet + English -ic; akin to Old Irish fāith seer, poet, Old English wōth voice, song, poetry, wōd mad, raging, Old High German wuot frenzy, madness, Old Norse ōthr, n., song, poetry, ōthr, adjective, frantic, mad, Gothic woths possessed
: of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet : prophetical , oracular
any poet … has his stuffy moments, especially when he is being consciously vatic — Dudley Fitts