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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_121074" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_121074" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' 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. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) [[Appointed]] lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. </p> | ||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_19762" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_19762" /> == | ||
<p> (fatum) denotes an inevitable necessity depending upon a superior cause. The word is formed a fando, "from speaking, " and primarily implies the same with effatum, vis. a word or decree pronounced by God, or a fixed sentence whereby the [[Deity]] has prescribed the order of things, and allotted to every person what shall befal him. The [[Greeks]] called it as it were a chain or necessary series of things indissolubly linked together. It is also used to express a certain unavoidable designation of things, by which all agents, both necessary and voluntary, are swayed and directed to their ends. [[Fate]] is divided into physical and divine. </p> <p> 1. [[Physical]] fate is an order and series of natural causes, appropriated to their effects; as, that fire warms; bodies communicate motion to each other, &c." and the effects of it are all the events and phenomena of nature. </p> <p> 2. [[Divine]] fate is what is more usually called providence. </p> <p> See | <p> (fatum) denotes an inevitable necessity depending upon a superior cause. The word is formed a fando, "from speaking, " and primarily implies the same with effatum, vis. a word or decree pronounced by God, or a fixed sentence whereby the [[Deity]] has prescribed the order of things, and allotted to every person what shall befal him. The [[Greeks]] called it as it were a chain or necessary series of things indissolubly linked together. It is also used to express a certain unavoidable designation of things, by which all agents, both necessary and voluntary, are swayed and directed to their ends. [[Fate]] is divided into physical and divine. </p> <p> 1. [[Physical]] fate is an order and series of natural causes, appropriated to their effects; as, that fire warms; bodies communicate motion to each other, &c." and the effects of it are all the events and phenomena of nature. </p> <p> 2. [[Divine]] fate is what is more usually called providence. </p> <p> See PROVIDENCE, NECESSITY. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_40168" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_40168" /> == | ||
