Part 4193

<h1>Fata Morgana</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"ta Mor*ga"na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[It.; -- so called because this phenomenon was looked upon as the work of a fairy (It. <ets>fata</ets>) of the name of <ets>Morg\'a0na</ets>. See <er>Fairy</er>.]</ety> <def>A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.</def>

<h1>Fatback</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fat"back`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The menhaden.</def>

<h1>Fat-brained</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fat"-brained`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Dull of apprehension.</def>

<h1>Fate</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fatum</ets> a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. <ets>fari</ets> to speak: cf. OF. <ets>fat</ets>. See <er>Fame</er>, <er>Fable</er>, <er>Ban</er>, and cf. 1st <er>Fay</er>, <er>Fairy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.</def>

<blockquote>Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is <b>fate</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting <b>fate</b> of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. <i>Froude.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.</def>

<blockquote>The great, th'important day, big with the <b>fate</b> Of Cato and of Rome. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Our wills and <b>fates</b> do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The whizzing arrow sings, <b>And bears thy fate</b>, Antinous, on its wings. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; <as>as, <ex>fate</ex> was, or the <ex>fates</ex> were, against him</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A brave man struggling in the storms of <b>fate</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes an hour of <b>Fate's</b> serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. <i>B. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <ety>[L. <ets>Fata</ets>, pl. of <ets>fatum</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Myth.)</fld> <def>The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the <altname>Destinies</altname>, or <altname>Parc\'91</altname>who were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.</def>

<note>&hand; Among all nations it has been common to speak of <i>fate</i> or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the <i>fate</i> of poets and mythologists. Philosophical <i>fate</i> is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological <i>fate</i> represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will -- the expression of that will being the law.

<i>Krauth-Fleming.</i> </note>

<syn>Syn. -- Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.</syn>

<h1>Fated</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fat"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; <as>as, he was <ex>fated</ex> to rule a factious people</as>.</def>

<blockquote>One midnight <b>Fated</b> to the purpose. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Invested with the power of determining destiny.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "The <i>fated</i> sky."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Exempted by fate.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>