fatalIstIc

[Eng. fatalist; -ic.] Of or per taining to fatalism; implying or partaking of the nature of fatalism. "Are you a Christian, and talk about a crisis in that fatalistic sense?" -Cole ridge : Table Talk . fa-tăl-1-ty, s. [Fr. fatal ité; Lat. fatal it as; from fatal is, from fatum =fate.] 1. A state of being fatal or predestined by fate; a fixed and unalterable course of things independent of any controlling cause. "The stoics held a fatality and a fixed, unalterable course of events; but then they held also that they fell out by a nece ity emergent from and inherent in the things themselves which God Himself could not alter." South . 2. A decree of fate. "By a strange fatality men suffer their di enting to be drawn into the stream of the present rogue."-King Charles: Eikon Basilike . 3. A tendency to danger or hurt. 4. Mortality, destruction; as, The fatality among cattle has been very great. 5. A fatal occurrence. fāt-al-ly, adv. [Eng. fatal; -ly.] *1. By the decree of fate; by inevitable and unalterable destiny or nece ity. "The atoms composed the world mechanically and fat ally."-Bentley: Boyle Lectures. 2. In a fatal, mortal, or deadly manner; in a man ner leading to or followed by death; mortally; as, The duel ended fatally . 3. In a ruinous or destructive manner; perniciously, ruinously. "When Cre y battle fatally was struck." Shakesp.: Henry V., ii. 4. fat-al-ne , s. [Eng. fatal; -ne .] The quality or state of being fatal; inevitable nece ity; fatality.