Part 4192

<h1>Fatal</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"tal</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fatalis</ets>, fr. <ets>fatum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>fatal</ets>. See <er>Fate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>These thing are <b>fatal</b> and necessary. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It was <b>fatal</b> to the king to fight for his money. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Foreboding death or great disaster.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>That <b>fatal</b> screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; <as>as, a <ex>fatal</ex> wound; a <ex>fatal</ex> disease; a <ex>fatal</ex> day; a <ex>fatal</ex> error.</as></def>

<h1>Fatalism</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"tal*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fatalisme</ets>.]</ety> <def>The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.</def>

<h1>Fatalist</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"tal*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fataliste</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.</def>

<h1>Fatalistic</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa`tal*is"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.</def>

<h1>Fatality</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa*tal"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>;<plu>pl. <plw>Fatalities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L. <ets>fatalitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>fatalit\'82</ets>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.</def>

<blockquote>The Stoics held a <b>fatality</b>, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.</def>

<blockquote>The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable <b>fatality</b>. <i>Ser T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>By a strange <b>fatality</b> men suffer their dissenting. <i>Eikon Basilike.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Fatally</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"tal*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.</def>

<i>Bentley.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; <as>as, <ex>fatally</ex> deceived or wounded</as>.</def>

<h1>Fatalness</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"tal*ness</hw><def>, . Quality of being fatal.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>