fatidical

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Cruel, fantastic, nonchalant, and shivering atrociously, his female Satan worshippers go to their greedy master in *fatidical and shuddering attitudes; they submit to his glacial embrace.

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  1. Same as fatidic. So that the fatidical fury spreads wider and wider, till at last even Saul must join in it. Carlyle.

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  • Far from a comment about a fat ass, fatidical (fa-TID-a-cull) actually refers to prophetic power; the ability to foretell future events.
  • Cruel, fantastic, nonchalant, and shivering atrociously, his female Satan worshippers go to their greedy master in *fatidical and shuddering attitudes; they submit to his glacial embrace. —  Promenades of an Impressionist
  • I sketched her strange, fatidical face. —  My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
  • Now listen to the fatidical Pole Przybyszewski: "In the beginning there was sex, out of sex there was nothing and in it everything was. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • Pierre remembered the four fatidical letters, the S.P.Q.R. of old and glorious Rome, which like an order of final triumph given to Destiny he had everywhere found in present-day Rome, on all the walls, on all the insignia, even on the municipal dust-carts! —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
 

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