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Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather
strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams.

4. pl. [L. Fata, pl. of
fatum.] (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho,
Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or
Parcæwho 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.

&fist; Among all nations it has been common to speak of
fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying
all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets
and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws
of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind
properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as
above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his
will -- the expression of that will being the law. Krauth-
Fleming.

Syn. -- Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.

Fat"ed (?), p. p. & a.
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