Fa*tal"i*ty (?), n.;pl.
Fatalities (#). [L. fatalitas: cf. F.
fatalité] 1. The state of being
fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to,
and independent of, free and rational control.
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed,
unalterable course of events.
South.
2. The state of being fatal; tendency to
destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the
most considerable fatality.
Ser T.
Browne.
By a strange fatality men suffer their
dissenting.
Eikon Basilike.
3. That which is decreed by fate or which is
fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.