Word of the Day: FATILOQUIST


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fatiloquus (prophesying, prophetic) + -ist


EXAMPLE
“…Fate, and Fatories, and Fatiloquists, and Fooles, all taken from talking they know not what …”

From: Πῦς-μαντία. The Mag-astro-mancer,
Or The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed, and puzzled
By John Gaule, 1652

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