fate

Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

Accept your fate.

Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

(mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Fate

It’s important to research chemical fate because chemical fate is the best tool we have for understanding and managing human health risks or environmental damage caused by chemical release.

2019 July 12, Danielle Freeman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, retrieved 2022-08-02:

(biochemistry) The products of a chemical reaction in their final form in the biosphere.

(embryology) The mature endpoint of a region, group of cells or individual cell in an embryo, including all changes leading to that mature endpoint

en-noun

fate (countable and uncountable, plural fates)

རླུང་རྟའི་ལྷ་མོ (rlung rta'i lha mo, literally “goddess of the wind horse, where ‘wind horse’ means fortune/fame/luck”)

From Latin fāta (“prediction”), plural of fātum, from fātus (“spoken”), from for (“to speak”). In this sense, displaced native Old English wyrd, whence Modern English weird.


fate

The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.

At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.

2011, James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays, page 119:

(transitive) To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

en-verb

fate (third-person singular simple present fates, present participle fating, simple past and past participle fated)

fates (present singular third-person)
fating (participle present)
fated (participle past)
fated (past)