Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
fatidic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent.
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- adjective Having power to
foretell future events;prophetic ;fatiloquent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His head, laden with an Assyrian mitre, was bent, and he was watching the gold plate on his breast; it was covered with fatidical stones, and the flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights.
Salammbo 2003
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They were fatidical gifts, that saw and hatchet; in the years ahead of me I was to use tools as well as my brothers did, as I proved when I helped to build our frontier home.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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Which he was enabled so assuredly to assent to, upon the advantage of the relaxation of his Soul now departing from the Body: Which Diodorus Siculus, lib. 18, notes to be the Opinion of Pythagoras and his followers, that it is the privilege of the Soul near her Departure, to exercise a fatidical Faculty, and to pronounce truly touching things future.
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They were fatidical gifts, that saw and hatchet; in the years ahead of me I was to use tools as well as my brothers did, as I proved when I helped to build our frontier home.
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As was to be expected, the eternal calamity howlers and false prophets of evil raise their fatidical voices on this present occasion, in protest against female suffrage, invoking the sanctity of the home and the necessity of perpetuating customs that have been observed for many years.
The Woman and the Right to Vote Rafael Palma 1906
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Cruel, fantastic, nonchalant, and shivering atrociously, his female Satan worshippers go to their greedy master in * fatidical and shuddering attitudes; they submit to his glacial embrace.
Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890
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They were fatidical gifts, that saw and hatchet; in the years ahead of me I was to use tools as well as my brothers did, as I proved when I helped to build our frontier home.
The Story of a Pioneer Anna Howard Shaw 1883
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Pierre remembered the four fatidical letters, the S.P.Q.R. of old and glorious Rome, which like an order of final triumph given to Destiny he had everywhere found in present-day Rome, on all the walls, on all the insignia, even on the municipal dust-carts!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871
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Pierre remembered the four fatidical letters, the S.P.Q.R. of old and glorious Rome, which like an order of final triumph given to Destiny he had everywhere found in present-day Rome, on all the walls, on all the insignia, even on the municipal dust-carts!
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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Pierre remembered the four fatidical letters, the S.P.Q.R. of old and glorious Rome, which like an order of final triumph given to Destiny he had everywhere found in present-day Rome, on all the walls, on all the insignia, even on the municipal dust-carts!
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
whichbe commented on the word fatidical
Prophetic; having the power to foretell the future. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008