Definitions
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- proper n. Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis; supernatural beings who controlled the destiny of men and of the gods.
Etymologies
Examples
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Duel of Fates is the only song I know off Star Wars.
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Norns '(for so in that country they called the Fates)' beckon you to a land where green fields lie under a blue sky, fields where golden-haired maidens lie among the flowers. '
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That was exactly what he had to do now, in order to call the Fates to come to him.
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Sullen teenagers are in charge of loading people onto high velocity rides at amusement parks...perhaps the Fates are the same.
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The Fates are a tripartite entity, and she gives up the first job, and is invited to the next after spending some time as a mortal again.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: With A Tangled Skein - Piers Anthony
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But what you may call the Fates ordered him into it again.
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For Particulars and Universals alike it is established that to the first of those known as the Fates, to Clotho the Spinner, must be due the unity and as it were interweaving of all that exists: Lachesis presides over the Lots: to Atropos must necessarily belong the conduct of mundane events.
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The three sisters who are called the Fates came also.
Part III. The Heroes of the Quest. Chapter II. Peleus and His Bride from the Sea. II
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You are our fellow slaves, he would say; if the Fates are our mistresses, they are also yours.
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In the same way, Destiny and the Fates are the universal shipwrights, and you are their drills and adzes; and it seems to me that instead of paying their respects and their sacrifices to you, men ought to sacrifice to Destiny, and implore
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