fatidic

(-ĭ-kəl)
adj.
Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.

[Latin fātidicus : fātum, prophecy, doom; see fate + dīcere, to say.]

(fay-TID-ik)

adjective
Of or relating to predicting fates; prophetic.

Etymology
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.

Usage
"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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adjective

Of or relating to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural, divinitory, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic, vatical, vaticinal, visionary. See foresight.