fatidical

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Thus echoed he the fatidical query of the French poet....

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

The followers of the fatidical Joanna may still be counted by thousands in Great Britain, particularly in its metropolis; and their acknowledged head, in strict accordance with the fitness of things, is a woman.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

And I say: what are all his vapourings and fatidical croonings on the tripod of pseudo-prophecy as compared to Anna Karenina?

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

His head, laden with an Assyrian mitre, was bent, and he was watching the gold plate on his breast; it was covered with fatidical stones, and the flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

I hear and understand them, quoth Panurge; their sound is, by my thirst, more uprightly fatidical than that of Jove's great kettles in Dodona.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony