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adjective

Fatal adj.

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. (R.) "These thing are fatal and necessary." "It was fatal to the king to fight for his money."

Foreboding death or great disaster. (R.) "That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours."

Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

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"Fatal" Quotes from Famous Books

... had remained, since the last scene of the fatal tragedy on the Binnenhof, in hopeless desolation. The wife of the man who during a whole generation of mankind had stood foremost among the foremost of the world, and had been one of those chief actors and directors in human affairs to whom men's eyes turned instinctively from ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... busy among them; the winds tore up the trees, and hurled them at their dwellings; their crops were blasted; their cattle died, and sickness came upon their strongest men. At last the remnant of them departed from the fatal spot to mingle with more populous and prosperous colonies. Campbell became a hermit, seldom seeking or seeing his fellowmen, and two years after he was found dead in his hut." (footnote: From The White Hills, ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... trifle higher on her white shoulders, then decided to front the obnoxious word bravely as a woman of the world. She had met with it chiefly in books where it was used solely to denote anger. There had been, for instance, the tale of "Henry: or, the Fatal Effect of Passion." ... Henry had slain a school-fellow in his rage, and had been duly hanged; yet something told Miss Le Pettit that was not how Mr. Constantine was using the word.... ...

— The White Riband - A Young Female's Folly • Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse

... this did not suffice "to overcome that fatal combination of circumstances which had caused him to be judged as the courtier of despotism." "How gladly," he writes, "would I have accepted the destiny which envy could not reach! But this scourge of honest men clings to my flesh, and I cannot hope to escape ...

— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells

... nervous glance up and down the street, I saw him push past the commissionnaire as though in a hurry to gain the semi-obscurity of the car. I stopped short upon the pavement, motionless for one brief and fatal moment. Then I turned back and hastened to the side of the car. I ...

— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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