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Not favored by the stars; ill-fated. [Poetic] Shak. Such in my star-crossed destiny. Massinger.

y adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope.

xxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. Denham.

igning one's name; hence, to assent; to agree. So spake, so wished, much humbled Eve; but Fate Subscribed not. Milton.

. Suspend your indignation against my brother. Shak. The guard nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear. Denham.

to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me. Addison.

arrate. Of which I shall tell all the array. Chaucer. And not a man appears to tell their fate. Pope.

,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

d consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope.

Ill-fated; unlucky. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind South. His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind. Walpole.

Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.

Resistless; as, unresisted fate. [R.] Pope.

ople, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]

ngues Do hiss into madness. Shak. Whom I could pity thus forlorn. Milton. How hard is our fate, who serve in the state. Addison. Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death. Young. The brace of large greyhounds, who were the companions of his sports. Sir W. Scott.

To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant.

es the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. "Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years." Dryden. "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch." Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute." W…

th you. Shak. Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate. Dryden. See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die. Pope. There is no living with thee nor without thee. Tatler. Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosoph…