fatally, adv.
(ˈfeɪtəlɪ)
Also 7 fatallie.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
In a fatal manner.
1. As decreed by fate; in a predestined manner.
| 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 ? Marston Pasquil & Kath. ii. 33 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 Pope Odyss. 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.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 54 When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke. 1635 Cowley Davideis iii. 584 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 Associative Principles iii. 66 These wars operated fatally upon the noble order of knighthood. |
b. Ruinously, by or with disastrous results.
| 1663 Cowley Verses & Ess. (1669) 21 Which like an Anti-Comet here Did fatally to that appear. 1757 Johnson Rambler No. 177 ¶8 How fatally human sagacity was sometimes baffled. 1793 Burke Conduct of Minority Wks. 1842 I. 621 It is fatally known, that [etc.]. 1800 Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. 125, I must be fatally wrong. 1828 D'Israeli Chas. I, III. ii. 65 The possible dangers which afterwards were so fatally realized. 1866 Howells 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.
| 1809 Med. Jrnl. XXI. 278 The attack..terminated fatally. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 56 Those who fight the most frequently and fatally are the French creoles. 1882 Med. Temp. Jrnl. L. 56 Many of the cases..ended fatally. |