adv. Also 7 fatallie. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a fatal manner.
1. As decreed by fate; in a predestined manner.
1574. Petit. to Q. Eliz., 22 March, in Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1574–1660. 1. Sundry rich and unknown lands fatally reserved for England.
1601. ? Marston, Pasquil & Katherine, II. 33.
| Is even fatally predestinate | |
| To consecrate it selfe vnto your loue. |
1661. Origen, in Phenix, I. 54. The inferior Spirit of the World acts not by choice but fatally.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIV. 82.
| For whose cursed cause, in Agamemnon’s name, | |
| He trod so fatally the paths of Fame. |
1880. Vernon Lee, Belcaro, vii. 195–6. The eye has seen, the hand has reproduced—seen and reproduced that which surrounds them—and inevitably, fatally, although eye and hand belonged to the man ‘who placed all his hopes in the good things of fortune, into whose porphyry brain no idea of good could enter, who for money would have concluded any evil bargain,’ the work thus produced by this commonplace, grasping atheist, Peter Perugino, must be the ideal of all purely devotional art.
2. In a deadly or disastrous manner: a. Destructively, with destructive results.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., II. iv. 53.
| Witnesse our too much memorable shame | |
| When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke. |
1635. Cowley, Davideis, III. 584.
| Backward the Winds his active Curses blew, | |
| And fatally round his own Head they flew. |
1812. H. R., in Examiner, 4 May, 283/2. A few yards of rope, which, by an unlucky snap, might … convince them too fatally of their mortality.
1859. C. Barker, Associative Principles, iii. 66. These wars operated fatally upon the noble order of knighthood; and a ruthlessness of spirit was throughout them manifested that mocked the gentle influences of chivalry.
b. Ruinously, by or with disastrous results.
1663. Cowley, Verses & Ess. (1669), 21.
| Which like an Anti-Comet here | |
| Did fatally to that appear, | |
| For ever frighted it away. |
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 177, 26 Nov., ¶ 8. Chartophylax then observed how fatally human sagacity was sometimes baffled, and how often the most valuable discoveries are made by chance.
1793. Burke, Conduct of the Minority, Wks. 1842, I. 621. It is fatally known, that the great object of the Jacobin system is to excite the lowest description of the people to range themselves under ambitious men, for the pillage and destruction of the more eminent orders and classes of the community.
1800. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), I. 125. Amid solemn reflexion, the conviction has flashed upon me irresistibly, that I must be fatally wrong.
1828. D’Israeli, Chas. I., III. ii. 65. The possible dangers which afterwards were so fatally realized.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life (1883), II. xvii. 98. The Venetian fine lady … fatally hides her ankles in pantalets.
c. With death as the result, esp. of disease, to end, terminate fatally.
1809. Med. Jrnl., XXI. 278. The attack … terminated fatally.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 56. Those who fight the most frequently and fatally are the French creoles, who use small swords.
1882. Med. Temp. Jrnl., L. 56. Many of the cases … ended fatally.
