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111necessity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. need (see necessity); compulsion; poverty. II What must happen Nouns 1. necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; dire or cruel… …
112Fate — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. destiny, Nemesis, the Fates, the Weird Sisters, Parcae, the Norns, the three sisters; Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos …
113Necessity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Necessity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 involuntariness involuntariness Sgm: N 1 instinct instinct blind impulse Sgm: N 1 inborn proclivity inborn proclivity innate proclivity Sgm: N 1 native tendency native tendency… …
114Fates, the — In Greek mythology, the three daughters of Nyx: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; they are known as the Moerae in Greek and Parcae in Latin …
115SCOLIASTE — Par exemple, Dacier et son illustre épouse étaient, quoi qu on dise, des traducteurs et des scoliastes très utiles. C était encore une des singularités du grand siècle, qu un savant et sa femme nous fissent connaître Homère et Horace, en nous …
116fates — n. pl. (Mythol.) Destinies, Parcae, sister goddesses (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos), fatal sisters, three sisters …
117weird sisters — [Scotch.] The Fates, the Sisters three, Parcae …
118fate — 1. noun 1) what has fate in store for me? Syn: destiny, providence, the stars, chance, luck, serendipity, fortune, kismet, karma 2) my fate was in their hands Syn: future, destiny …
119destiny — n 1. fate, fortune, lot, cup, portion, die, doom, Archaic. foredoom, Chiefly Scot. weird, writing on the wall, Brit. Inf. cup of tea; karma, kismet, Obs. destin or destine. 2. destination, future, ultimate future; hereafter, otherworld, world to… …
120Fates — /feɪts/ (say fayts) plural noun Classical Mythology the, the three goddesses of destiny; Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis measures it, and Atropos severs it. Greek name, the Moirai. Roman equivalent, the Parcae …
