fatidical

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈtɪdɪkəl/

Adjective

fatidical (comparative more fatidical, superlative most fatidical)

1. 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

Related terms

• fatidically

References

“fatidical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.