a. [ L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate. ]
These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
That fatal screech owl to our house
That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. fatalisme. ] The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. fataliste. ] One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
n. Quality of being fatal. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]