Fate (redirected from destine)

Fate

See also Chance.

Adrastea

goddess of inevitable fate. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 35]

Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis

the three Fates; worked the thread of life. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Bulfinch]

Bridge of San Luis Rey, The

catastrophe as act of divine providence. [Am. Lit.: The Bridge of San Luis Rey]

dance of death, the

recurring motif in medieval art. [Eur. Culture: Bishop, 363–367]

Destiny

goddess of destiny of mankind. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 78]

Fates

three goddesses who spin, measure out, and cut the thread of each human’s life. Also called Lat. Parcae, Gk. Moirai. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 757]

Jennie Gerhardt

novel of young girl trapped by life’s circumstances (1911). [Am. Lit.: Jennie Gerhardt, Magill III, 526–528]

karma

one’s every action brings inevitable results. [Buddhist and Hindu Trad.: EB (1963), 13: 283; Pop. Culture: Misc.]

kismet

alludes to the part of life assigned one by his destiny. [Moslem Trad.: EB (1963), 13: 418; Pop. Culture: Misc.]

Leonora

cursed by father; stabbed by brother. [Ital. Opera: Verdi, La Forza del Destino, Westerman, 316–317]

Meleager

death would come when firebrand burned up. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 186]

Moirai

see Fates.

Necessitas

goddess of the destiny of mankind. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 78, 162]

Nemesis

goddess of vengeance and retribution; nemesis has come to mean that which one cannot achieve. [Gr. Myth.: WB, 14: 116; Pop. Culture: Misc.]

Norns

wove the fabric of human destiny. [Norse Myth.: Benét, 720]

Parcae

see Fates.

wool and narcissi, garland of

emblem of the three Fates. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 374]