fatallyadv.
/ˈfeɪtl̩i/, /ˈfeɪtəli/, U.S. /ˈfeɪdl̩i/ In a fatal manner.
1. As decreed by fate; in a predestined manner.
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the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adverb]
fatally1574
predestinately1579
predeterminately1859
pre-ordinately1894
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [adverb] > as decreed by fate
fatally1574
fatefully1863
1574 Petit. to Q. Eliz. 22 Mar. in Cal. State Papers, Colonial 1574–1660. 1 Sundry rich and unknown lands fatally reserved for England.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C2v Fatally predestinate To consecrate it selfe vnto your loue.
1661 Origen in Phenix I. 54 The inferior Spirit of the World acts not by choice but fatally.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 82 He trod so fatally the paths of Fame.
1880 ‘V. 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.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb]
ruinouslyc1450
perniciously1533
consuminglya1542
wastefully?1567
locust-like1596
fatallya1616
extinctively1633
destructively1661
shatteringly1818
destroyingly1820
corrosively1831
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 54 When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke. View more context for this quotation
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 97 in Poems Backward the Winds his active Curses blew, And fatally round his own head they flew.
1812 H. 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.
1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. iii. 66 These wars operated fatally upon the noble order of knighthood.
b. Ruinously, by or with disastrous results.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > calamitously
tragically1561
disastrously1596
fatally1663
calamitously1794
1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 21 Which like an Anti-Comet here Did fatally to that appear.
1757 S. Johnson Rambler No. 177. ⁋8 How fatally human sagacity was sometimes baffled.
1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) 58 It is fatally known, that [etc.].
1800 J. Foster Let. 15 Jan. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) I. 125 I must be fatally wrong.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. ii. 65 The possible dangers which afterwards were so fatally realized.
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xvi. 248 The Venetian fine lady..fatally hides her ankles in pantalettes.
c. With death as the result, esp. of disease, to end fatally, to terminate fatally.
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the world > life > death > [adverb] > with death as result
fatally1809
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 278 The attack..terminated fatally.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 56 Those who fight the most frequently and fatally are the French creoles.
1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 50 56 Many of the cases..ended fatally.
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