fatidical
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Etymology edit
From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dīcō (“to say, tell”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fatidical (comparative more fatidical, superlative most fatidical)
- Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
- the fatidical oak
- 1655, James Howell, “To Doctor Harvey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
- some Trees , that they are fatidical, these come to foretell, at leastwise to wish you, as the season invites me, a good New-year
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References edit
“fatidical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.