ppl. a. [f. FATE sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Appointed, decreed or determined by fate.

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1715–20.  Pope, Iliad, I. 282. Thy injured honor has its fated hour.

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1821.  Joanna Baillie, Met. Leg., Wallace, xvii.

        What tho’ those warriors, gleaming round,
    On peaceful death-bed never lay,
    But each, upon his fated day,
His end on field and scaffold found.

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1864.  Pusey, Lect. Daniel, v. 239. Those detailed minute prophecies had their own especial office, to mark out, that God’s Judgments were not mere chance, (as men, now also, often think,) nor again, (what lies nearer to the depths of man’s heart, who feels himself in the power of the Invisible) a mere fated thing, but the discriminating sentence of the One Ruler of the world.

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  2.  Doomed to destruction.

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1817.  Chalmers, Astron. Disc., i. (1852), 38. A blazing comet may cross this fated planet.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 14. Cavalry … were fast approaching the fated city.

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  3.  ‘Invested with the power of fatal determination’ (J.).

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1601.  Shaks., All’s Well that ends Well, I. i. 232.

                The fated skye
Giues vs free scope.

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  4.  Controlled, guided, or driven on by fate.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, II. xxii.

                  The fated Fire moved on,
And round the Body wrapt its funeral flames.

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1817.  Byron, Manfred, II. ii. Fatal and fated in thy sufferings.

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1827.  Pollok, The Course of Time, VII. 448.

        Of Gog, and all the fated crew that warred
Against the chosen saints, in the last days.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 303.

        And there with many rites he purified
His fated hands of that unlooked-for guilt.

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  ¶ 5.  Of armor: Made proof by spells, charmed. rare–2.

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  [Suggested by Ariosto’s armi fatate; the It. fatare render proof by spells, to charm, corresponds to OF. faer:—popular L. fātāre, f. fāta fairy (see FAY sb.); but the etymological notion as apprehended by Dryden was prob. ‘protected as by a decree of Fate.’]

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Æneid, Ded. His fated Armour was only an Allegorical Defence.

            Ibid., VIII. 716.
            Bright Vulcanian Arms,
Fated from force of Steel by Stygian charms.

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  6.  Preceded by some qualifying adv.: Having a particular fate or destiny. rare exc. in ILL-FATED.

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a. 1721.  Prior, Epil. to Phædra, 25.

        Her aukward Love indeed was oddly fated;
She and her Poly were too near related.

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