"fate" Definition

Definitions for the word "fate" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
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, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 supposed power predetermining events. 2 a the future so determined. B individual''s destiny or fortune. 3 death, destruction. v. (-ting) 1 (usu. In passive) preordain (fated to win). 2 (as fated adj.) Doomed. fate worse than death see *death. [italian and latin fatum]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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