fatidical

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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

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

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

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

This fatidical presentiment turned out unfortunately to be a fact.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.