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

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

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is this labour?" said the peer to John;   And the disciple answered Otho's heir,   "Know that the Parcae are those ancient wives,   That in this fashion spin your feeble lives.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling Chaunted from breasts divine prophetic verse the Parcae.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I am sure Sora Serafina, Sora Lodovica, and Sora Adalgisa—the three Parcae or Norns, as I call them—have some such notion.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon

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

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

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

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

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 Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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 Campbell, Thomas

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 Gibbs, J. Arthur