a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fatalism.
1832. Coleridge, Table-t. (1835), II. 29. Are you a Christian, and talk about a crisis in that fatalistic sense?
1838. J. F. Ferrier, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Consciousness, in Blackwood’s Magazine, XLIV., Aug., 240/1. It [the ego] is for ever acting against the fatalistic forces of nature.
1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, 197. A fatalistic view of jug-breaking.
1861. Thornbury, Turner (1862), I. 12. The doctrine of innate tendencies they deride as predestinarian, fatalistic, and fit only for empirics or the adherents of a science as incomplete in its limits and terms as phrenology.
Hence Fatalistically adv., in a fatalistic manner; according to the fatalistic doctrine; like a fatalist.
1856. Dove, Logic Chr. Faith, V. i. § 2. 267. In the works we see not God,—we see only the manifestation of his eternal power and wisdom working fatalistically for given ends and purposes.
1884. J. Parker, Apost. Life, III. 53. He has risen to the point at which life itself is despised as compared with what he superstitiously calls his ‘ministry,’ or fatalistically calls his ‘course.’
