Obs. rare. [f. FATE sb. + -ATION.] The exercise of inevitable and irresistible influence.
1652. Gaule, Πῦς-μαντία, the Mag-astro-mancer, xviii. § 6. 148. If there be necessitating and enforcing fatation upon things. Ibid., xviii. § 19. 154. What fatation, or fatall necessitation to man, among all these?
