Parcae

American  

[pahr-see, -kahy] / ˈpɑr si, -kaɪ /

plural noun

• Parca
  singular

1. the three Fates of ancient Rome, developed out of the goddess Parca by identification with the Moerae of Greek mythology.

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Parcae British  

/ ˈpɑːsiː /

plural noun

1. Greek counterparts: the Moirai.  the Roman goddesses of fate

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Example Sentences

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Parcae Parca

The Parcae were not more methodical; Atropos not more fatal; the automaton chess-player not more irresponsible.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

They both accept Destiny,—the Parcae or the Norns spin the threads of life,—and yet both admit a sphere of human choice.

From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol

Oh! oh! venerable Parcae, what fresh attack is this?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes

Or prayers the stony Parcae soothe, Or coax the thunder from its mark?

From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied:     "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.

From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Henry Edward Krehbiel

What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell