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fatally, adv.|ˈfeɪtəlɪ|
Also 7 fatallie.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a fatal manner.
1. As decreed by fate; in a predestined manner.
1574Petit. to Q. Eliz. 22 Mar. in Cal. State Papers, Colonial 1574–1660. 1 Sundry rich and unknown lands fatally reserved for England. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. ii. 33 Fatally predestinate To consecrate it selfe vnto your loue. 1661Origen in Phenix I. 54 The inferior Spirit of the World acts not by choice but fatally. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 82 He trod so fatally the paths of Fame. 1880V. Lee Belcaro vii. 195 Inevitably, fatally..the work..must be the ideal of all purely devotional art.
2. In a deadly or disastrous manner:
a. Destructively, with destructive results.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 54 When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke. 1635Cowley Davideis iii. 584 Backward the Winds his active Curses blew, And fatally round his own Head they flew. 1812H. R. in Examiner 4 May 283/2 A few yards of rope, which, by an unlucky snap, might..convince them too fatally of their mortality. 1859C. Barker Associative Principles iii. 66 These wars operated fatally upon the noble order of knighthood.
b. Ruinously, by or with disastrous results.
1663Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 21 Which like an Anti-Comet here Did fatally to that appear. 1757Johnson Rambler No. 177 ⁋8 How fatally human sagacity was sometimes baffled. 1793Burke Conduct of Minority Wks. 1842 I. 621 It is fatally known, that [etc.]. 1800Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 125, I must be fatally wrong. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, III. ii. 65 The possible dangers which afterwards were so fatally realized. 1866Howells Venet. Life (1883) II. xvii. 98 The Venetian fine lady..fatally hides her ankles in pantalets.
c. With death as the result, esp. of disease, to end fatally, terminate fatally.
1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 278 The attack..terminated fatally. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 56 Those who fight the most frequently and fatally are the French creoles. 1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. L. 56 Many of the cases..ended fatally. |