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eding 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.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

, . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.

e kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.

Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic] This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. Evelyn.

A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.

hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

pious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

ration; splended; shining; as, brilliant talents. Washington was more solicitous to avoid fatal mistakes than to perform brilliant exploits. Fisher Ames.

f the incomplete combustion of carbon, and is an abundant constituent of water gas. It is fatal to animal life, extinguishes combustion, and burns with a pale blue flame, forming carbon dioxide.

a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.

y species, remakable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.

e, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting,…

A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.