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A voidable. [R.] Hooker.

Avoidable. [Obs.]

Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.

Inevitable. [Obs.]

dged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate a…

Unavoidable; inevitable.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable. Virtue that directs our ways Through certain dangers to uncertain praise. Dryden. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak.

o can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration. Marked by the Destinies to…

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon.

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

d 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. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fa…

Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.

Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. Bp. Pearson. The ineluctable conditions of matter. Hamerton.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

Inevitable. [R.] "Fate inextricable." Milton.

heos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak.

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.