Meaning

• The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

• The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.

• An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.

• Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.

  "Accept your fate."

• Alternative letter-case form of Fate (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).

Meaning

• To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.

  "The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur."