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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Fatale, Fatall, -ell, a. Also: fatal, fataill, fatill, fattell. [ME. fatal (Lydgate), L. fātālis.]

l. Assigned by fate. 1513 Doug. xi. Prol. 178.
Prynce Enee, That, for his fatale cuntre, of behest Sa feill dangeris sustenit 1533 Boece ii. ii. 60.
In the marbill chyare fataill to kingis and gouernouris of the realme was Ferichare sett 1535 Stewart 1193.
This fatall stone sic fortune hes and werd [etc.] 1622-6 Bisset II. 160/2.
The marbell and fatell seat or chair now in Westminster

2. Decreed by fate; esp. bringing final fate to one. a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 63.
In quhilk I fand the fatall destenie Of fair Cresseid, that endit wretchitlie c1475 Wall. iv. 294.
With out respyt cummyn was thair fatell houris 1490 Irland Mir. I. 30/29.
The errour that puttis fatall disposicioune and necessite in mennis werkis 1513 Doug. ii. vi. 56.
The lattir day is cummyn of Dardanus end, The fatale tyme quham na walyng may mend 1535 Stewart 15011.
Sen I haif wrocht efter my fatall weird, Langar to leve I couet nocht in eird a1578 Pitsc. I. 6/12.
The martiall deidis and als the fattell end Of his nobill … progeniture

b. Disastrous, ruinous. 1567 G. Ball. 185.
We knaw, as did King Saull, our fatell fall

3. Connected with fate; fateful. 1513 Doug. ii. iii. 40.
The fatale rellyk of Palladium Ib. ii. iv. 68; etc.
This fatale monstre clam our the wallis then 1567 Sat. P. iii. 181.
To hir I salbe ay contrarius, Quhill to me Atropus cut the fatell threid