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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. |
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Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined
event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. |
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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. |
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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. |
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