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Jul 27, 2005
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Words related to forecasting

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oneiromancy
cassandra
fatidic
dowse
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fatidic

(fay-TID-ik) Pronunciation

adjective: Of or relating to predicting fates; prophetic.

[From Latin fatidicus, from fatum (fate) + dicere (to say). Ultimately from Indo-European root deik- (to show or to pronounce solemnly) that is also the source of other words such as judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, and paradigm.]

"As a consequence of that essay, I was awarded a scholarship at the East-West Center (a name that, at the time, had fatidic significance to the child of a man from the East and a woman from the West)."
Paul Di Filippo; Textual Pleasures; The Washington Post; Jun 27, 1999.

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Fatigue is the best pillow. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

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