Word of the Day Archive
Monday December 3, 2001
fatidic \fuh-TID-ik\
, adjective:
Of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
Throughout his very considerable body of work, there is an obsession with time, with dates, with temporal coincidences, with the fatidic power of numbers over our birth and death.
-- James Kirkup, "Obituary: Ernst Junger", Independent, February 18, 1998
With a fatidic clarity that comes only occasionally and only to the young, she understood that . . . this too was a sign, an omen.
-- Kathleen Cambor, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
Fatidic comes from Latin fatidicus, from fati- (from fatum, "fate") + -dicus (from dicere, "to say").
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