fatidical


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fa·tid·ic

(fə-tĭd′ĭk) also fa·tid·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
[Latin fātidicus : fātum, prophecy, doom; see fate + dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]
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fatidical

adjective
Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means:
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Thus, in the harshly satirical image of the Quarterly Review, Barbauld is glimpsed in these lines dashing down "her shagreen spectacles and her knitting needles" to take up the embarrassing postures of a "fatidical spinster" (309).
She is fatidical because she goes on to venture some startling predictions that shocked and puzzled even some of her closest friends.