fatidical

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/fəˈtɪdɪkəl/

adjective

Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.

“the fatidical oak”

OriginLatin fātidicus →
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Meanings

adjectivefatidical (comparative more fatidical, superlative most fatidical)

comparative more fatidical · superlative most fatidical

  1. Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.

    the fatidical oak

    1 more example

    some Trees , that they are fatidical, these come to foretell, at leastwise to wish you, as the season invites me, a good New-year

    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

Origin

  1. Latinfātidicus
  2. Englishfatidical

From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dīcō (“to say, tell”).

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Chicago

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