FATE, FATED
ADJECTIVES
► AUND fated, destined, ordained → 1747 Eng. dial.
► AWNED fated, destined, ordained → 1747 Eng. dial.
► FATAL allotted or decreed by fate or destiny; destined, fated → c1374 obs.
► FATIDIC concerned with predicting fates; prophetic → 1671
► FATIDICAL concerned with predicting fates; prophetic → 1607
► FATIFEROUS fate-bringing; deadly, mortal, destructive → 1656
► FATILOQUENT declaring fate, prophetic, soothsaying → 1656
► OND fated, destined, ordained → 1775 Eng. dial. obs.
► ONDE fated, destined, ordained → 1775 Eng. dial. obs.
NOUNS
► BOUNCE, THE one’s fate, an inevitable result → 2007 sl. (Bk.)
► CAST a throw or stroke of fortune; hence, fortune, chance, opportunity; lot, fate → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► CAVEL ► KAVEL fate, destiny, chance → 1678 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CUT one’s lot, fate, fortune; fate or fortune as a ruler of events → a1340 obs.
► FALL lot, fate, fortune → 1773 Sc.
► FATIDICENCY a method of foretelling fate; divination → a1693 obs.
► FATILOQUENCY declaring fate; divination → a1693 obs.
► FATILOQUY soothsaying, declaring fate → 1623 obs.
► KISMET fate, destiny
► MUST-BE the inevitable; that which is fated to happen → 1868
► NEIGHBOUR’S FARE the same fate or luck → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► SORT destiny, hap, fate, fortune → c1405 obs.
► WANLUCK unhappy fate → 1571 Sc.
► WHEEL OF CUSTRONS the wheel of Fortune; chance, fate → 1450 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► FATARY one who foretells fates → 1652 obs.
► FATICANE a singer of fate; a prophet → 1652 obs.
► FATILOQUIST one who declares or foretells fates; a fortune-teller → 1652 obs.
PHRASES
► IN THE WOOD destined, fated → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► THAT’S THE WAY THE BALL BOUNCES such is life; such are the buffetings of fate → 1951 US sl.
► THAT’S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES such is life; such are the buffetings of fate → 1957 US sl.
► WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND fate determines what happens in life, esp. as regards one’s treatment – good or bad – of others → 1970s orig. African-American sl.
VERBS
► FATALIZE to render subject to fate or inevitable necessity → 1876
► FATIDICATE to declare or predict fates → 1867
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