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Word Meanings - FATIDICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.

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  • PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
    Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
  • OMINOUS
    Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
  • ORACULAR
    1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
  • PROPHETICALITY
    Propheticalness.
  • SIBYLLINE
    Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by
  • PREMONITORY
    Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • PROPHETICALNESS
    The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
  • FATIDICAL
    Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.
  • PORTENTOUS
    1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay. 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious;
  • PROPHETICALLY
    In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.
  • PREDICTIVE
    Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.
  • MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
    Having many names or terms.
  • BINOMINOUS
    Binominal.
  • ABDOMINOUS
    Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

 

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