proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency;
natural impulse, predetermination.
necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c 744;
subjection &c 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity,
imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse
necessity; fate; what must be.
destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom,
election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune;
fatalism; inevitableness &c adj.; spell &c 993.
star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates,
Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel
of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
last shift, last resort; dernier ressort [Fr.]; pis aller &c
(substitute) 147 [Fr.]; necessaries &c (requirement) 630.
necessarian†, necessitarian†; fatalist; automaton.
V. lie under a necessity; befated†, be doomed, be destined &c, in for,
under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's
fate &c n.. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be
unable to help.
destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a
spell &c 992; necessitate; compel &c 744.
Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisite) 630.
fated; destined &c v.; elect; spellbound compulsory &c (compel)
744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible,
irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless†, resistless.
involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical;
unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional &c (undesigned) 621;
impulsive &c 612.
Adv. necessarily &c adv.; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei
[Lat.]; needs must; perforce &c 744; nolens volens [Lat.]; will he nil
he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre [Fr.], willing or unwilling, coute que
coute [Fr.].
faute de mieux [Fr.]; by stress of; if need be.
Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it;
it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its
way; the die is cast; jacta est alea [Lat.]; che sara sara [Fr.]; it is
written; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant
[Lat.]; diis aliter visum [Lat.]; actum me invito factus [Lat.], non
est meus actus [Lat.]; aujord'hui roi demain rien [Fr.]; quisque suos
patimur manes [Lat.] [Vergil]; The moving finger writes and having writ
moves on.
Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to cancel half a
[Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam].