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"Section F, G and H"

[Obs.] Purchas.


2. To measure by a sounding line; especially,
to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get
to the bottom of.
Dryden.


The page of life that was spread out before me seemed
dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its
deeper import.
Hawthotne.


Fath"om*a*ble (?), a. Capable of
being fathomed.


Fath"om*er (?), n. One who
fathoms.


Fath"om*less, a. 1.
Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be
sounded.


And buckle in a waist most
fathomless.
Shak.


2. Incomprehensible.


The fathomless absurdity.

Milton.


Fa*tid"i*cal (?), a. [L.
fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell.]
Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent;
as, the fatidical oak.
[R.] Howell. --
Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.


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