Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The Fates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Latin name of the Fates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The Fates. See
fate , 4.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising.
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising.
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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As for Mr. Johnson, he had held the weapon of the most relentless of the 'Parcae' so long that his suddenly clipping the thread of a foreign minister's tenure of office in a fit of jealous anger is not at all surprising.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"You think right, suh, an 'I daresay you are familiar with the classical names we three have adopted, bein' those of the Parcae - Lachesis, Clotho, an 'myself, Atropos - tho' I hope to convince you that those of the Eumenides would have been more fittin '."
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The Parcae spin, measure and cut off the thread; one of them must keep nervously or playfully messing with the thread so there's a risk it'll tear, which causes the poet some discomfort.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion.
Walden 2004
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In a word, these three Parcae with their white or blue or red locks had spun the fatal threads of an incalculable number of gentlemen.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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But those that love to hold it at a higher rate, and prize it according to its value, for their own greater profit do the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal sister Parcae, or of the nocturnal exercise of the noble Circe, or yet of the excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing youngsters and effeminate courtiers during the long absence of her husband Ulysses.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But those that love to hold it at a higher rate, and prize it according to its value, for their own greater profit do the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal sister Parcae, or of the nocturnal exercise of the noble Circe, or yet of the excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing youngsters and effeminate courtiers during the long absence of her husband Ulysses.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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