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  • verb rare Present participle of fate.

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Examples

  • Just like people take their kids to NASCAR rallies without fating them to live in trailers.

    "But that's what makes Obama's association with Wright so significant. He's not from Alabama." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, are fating perjury charges for allegedly lying in court about an affair.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2008 2008

  • If you are supporting John McCain, Hillary Clinton, or even Barack Obama for president, then you are neglecting the Constitution and fating the country to more depression and bloodshed.

    Manifesting Revolution 2008

  • No, beverages can be included during fating periods as long as they are non-caloric.

    Fast way to better health | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006

  • The monotonous patter of the rain-drops upon the wet pavement or muddy roads, blending with the low whining of the wind and the steady rumble of the coach-wheels, seemed to make a kind of witch-chant, that wove with braided sound a weird spell about me, a charm fating me for some service, I knew not what.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • The monotonous patter of the rain-drops upon the wet pavement or muddy roads, blending with the low whining of the wind and the steady rumble of the coach-wheels, seemed to make a kind of witch-chant, that wove with braided sound a weird spell about me, a charm fating me for some service, I knew not what.

    Found and Lost Anonymous 1860

  • The monotonous patter of the rain-drops upon the wet pavement or muddy roads, blending with the low whining of the wind and the steady rumble of the coach-wheels, seemed to make a kind of witch-chant, that wove with braided sound a weird spell about me, a charm fating me for some service, I knew not what.

    Found and Lost 1860

  • I'm guessing that Serena won't be too thrilled by the revelation, since she went out of her way to lie that Blair wanted her and Dan to continue fake-dating fating? until the wedding.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Laura Prudom 2012

  • I Committee for methodizing, fating and fettling of the I Jjubiic Accounts.

    A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779

  • But this is * cafe do's not much need fating in oar clime » wherein Women are fo little ift THE LADIES CALLING.

    The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705

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