Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prophesying; prophetic; fatidic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Prophetic; fatidical.
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- adjective
Prophetic ; speaking offate .
Etymologies
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From Latin fatiloquus, from fatum ("fate") + ultimately loqui ("speak") (modeled on eloquent and other such words).
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Examples
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We still should, in such like discourses of fatiloquent soothsayers, interpret all things to the best.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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We still should, in such like discourses of fatiloquent soothsayers, interpret all things to the best.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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We still should, in such like discourses of fatiloquent soothsayers, interpret all things to the best.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
mollusque commented on the word fatiloquent
Prophetic.
January 20, 2008