[f. prec. sb.]
† 1. trans. To ruin irrevocably. Obs.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 5091. A fame [may] be defoulede, & fatid for euer.
2. To preordain as by the decree of fate. Const. to and to with inf. Obs. exc. in pass. in sense: To be appointed or destined by fate. Often quasi-impers. with subject clause.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well that ends Well, IV. iv. 20.
| Doubt not but heauen | |
| Hath brought me vp to be your daughters dowers, | |
| As it hath fated her to be my motiue | |
| And helper to a husband. | |
| Ibid. (1610), Temp., I. ii. 129. | |
| A treacherous Armie leuied, one mid-night | |
| Fated to th’ purpose. |
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 248.
| The soul of friendship to my hope is lost, | |
| Fated to wander from his natal coast! |
1828. D’Israeli, Chas. I., I. i. 4. It was fated that England should be the theatre of the first of a series of Revolutions which is not yet finished.
1860. Emerson, Conduct of Life, Fate, Wks. (Bohn), II. 310. Whatever is fated, that will take place. The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
1867. Lady Herbert, Cradle Lands, v. 152. The breathing-time allowed to our travellers was fated to be of short duration.
† b. ellipt. To destine to death. Obs.
1788. Cowper, Stanzas for 1788, 18.
| Ah self-deceiv’d! Could I prophetic say | |
| Who next is fated, and who next to fall. |
