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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀποτελεσματικός (apotelesmatikós), from ἀποτέλεσμα (apotélesma, “effect of the stars on human destiny”). Morphologically, from apotelesm + -atic.
Adjective
apotelesmatic (comparative more apotelesmatic, superlative most apotelesmatic)
- (obsolete, astrology) Relating to the casting of horoscopes.
1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:It will easily be supposed that when this apotelesmatic or judicial astrology obtained firm possession of men's minds, it would be pursued into innumerable subtle distinctions and extravagant conceits
- Relating to an issue of fulfilment.
1852 July, Moses Stuart, “Observations on Matthew 24:29-31”, in The Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository:In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment.
References
“apotelesmatic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.