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fatidic

[ fey-tid-ik, fuh- ]

adjective



fatidic

/ ´Ú±ðɪˈ³Ùɪ»åɪ°ì /

adjective

  1. rare.
    prophetic
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Derived Forms

  • ´Ú²¹Ëˆ³Ù¾±»å¾±³¦²¹±ô±ô²â, adverb
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • ´Ú²¹Â·³Ù¾±»å·¾±Â·³¦²¹±ô·±ô²â adverb
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fatidic1

1665–75; < Latin ´ÚÄå³Ù¾±»å¾±³¦³Ü²õ, equivalent to ´ÚÄå³Ù¾±- (combining form of ´ÚÄå³Ù³Ü³¾ fate ) + -dicus one who utters, derivative of »åÄ«³¦±ð°ù±ð to say
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fatidic1

C17: from Latin ´ÚÄå³Ù¾±»å¾±³¦³Ü²õ , from ´ÚÄå³Ù³Ü³¾ fate + »åÄ«³¦±ð°ù±ð to say
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Example Sentences

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At least one believer maintains that the fatidic date of 1 May links the Illuminati to the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Bin Laden, even though Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 and Bin Laden was killed in the early hours of 2 May 2011, Pakistan time.

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The king mastered the teachings of the magi of Chald�a and Nineveh; the science of the astrologers of Abydos, Sais, and Memphis; the secrets of the Assyrian sorcerers, mystagogues, and epopts, and of the fatidic� of Baktria and Persepolis; and he had become convinced that their knowledge was but the knowledge of mortals.

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The danger before which he now grew white with fear seemed to realize that fatidic thought, and hang suspended above him on a filament more tenuous than the hair which held aloft the fabled sword of Damocles.

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Adj. predicting &c. v.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic†, fatidical†; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent†, haruspical, Sibylline; weatherwise†. ominous, portentous, augurous†, augurial, augural; auspicial†, auspicious; prescious†, monitory, extispicious†, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.

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