\Fa*tal"i*ty\, n.;pl. {Fatalities}. [L. fatalitas: cf.
F. fatalit['e]]
1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny;
   invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of,
   free and rational control.

         The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable
         course of events.                     --South.

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or
   danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

         The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it
         the most considerable fatality.       --Ser T.
                                               Browne.

         By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
                                               --Eikon
                                               Basilike.

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal
   event. --Dryden.