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 Sisters three have willed it so.

From Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

But in no part of Italy does there seem to be any distinct recollection of the Parcae.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

In M. Auguste Dozon's collection of Albanian stories, there is one called "The sold child," which bears directly on the survival of the Parcae.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

In this these goddesses differ greatly from the Parcae, whose ordinances not even Zeus could withstand, as Lucian lets us know in one of the most audacious and philosophical of the dialogues.

From Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

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

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

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

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

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

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